Edmund Burke: “One witness (and for that reason) is allowed sufficient to convict, in cases of felony, which in other laws is not…”

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

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?

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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…