Edmund Burke: “All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees.”

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?

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

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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