Edmund Burke: “I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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