Edmund Burke: “This renders the handling of India a matter in an high degree critical and delicate.”

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…

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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