Edmund Burke: “Far from desiring to conceal or even to palliate the evil in the representation, I wish to lay it down as my foundation…”

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

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.