Edmund Burke: “In this manner the authority of the British legislature was at that time treated with every mark of reprobation and…”

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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.