Edmund Burke: “We are members for a free country; and surely we all know that the machine of a free constitution is no simple thing…”

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

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…