But neither blood nor power is represented so fully in the House of Commons as that order which composes the great body of the people,--the protection of which is our peculiar duty, and to which it is our glory to adhere.
Burke argues that the House of Lords has a unique duty to protect the interests of the common people, which he sees as a point of pride.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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