Edmund Burke: “Has this empire nothing to alarm you when all struggle against it is over, when mankind shall be silent before it, when…”

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.