Edmund Burke: “My Lords, what is it that we want here to a great act of national justice?”

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…