Edmund Burke: “And yet this act, to varnish o'er the shame Of sacrilege, must bear Devotion's name.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.