Edmund Burke: “He does not force upon him this abandoned and wicked confiscation of the property of the whole nobility of a great…”

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

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.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…