Edmund Burke: “It introduces some of the persons who were most active in the succeeding scenes, and from that time to this has given…”

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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