Edmund Burke: “Is this principle to be true in England and false everywhere else?”

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.

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.