Edmund Burke: “This Cossim Ali Khân signalized his first acts of hostility by an atrocity committed against the faith of treaties…”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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.