Edmund Burke: “The compassing all these advantages and happy prospects depends entirely upon your will and consent; and the power of…”

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

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…

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.