Edmund Burke: “Their humanity is at their horizon,--and, like the horizon, it always flies before them.”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.