Edmund Burke: “Everything, therefore, must be done which can confirm the authority of that city over the other republics.”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…