Edmund Burke: “This system was followed by the most pernicious consequences; these men were above all control, they exacted their own…”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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…

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