Edmund Burke: “It is a specimen of what may be expected from the masters we are preparing for our humbled country.”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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