Edmund Burke: “But am I so unreasonable as to see nothing at all that deserves commendation in the indefatigable labors of this…”

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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…