Edmund Burke: “Those which are rather conclusions of legal reason than matters of statutable provision belong to universal equity, and…”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.