Edmund Burke: “What is forced cannot be modified: but here you may measure your concessions.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…