Edmund Burke: “He had formed a plan of an entire new system, in which the practical details had no reference to the experience and…”

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

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.

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.