Edmund Burke: “Democracy, a perfect one the most shameless thing in the world.--its resemblance to tyranny.”

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…

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.