Edmund Burke: “From quarrelling with the court, they began to complain of monarchy itself, as a system of government too variable for…”

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

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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