Edmund Burke: “All authority, in a great degree, exists in opinion: royal authority most of all.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…