Edmund Burke: “I do not like to see anything destroyed, any void produced in society, any ruin on the face of the land.”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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…