Edmund Burke: “It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound,--we are sure of our…”

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

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

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?