Edmund Burke: “We have brought before you such a person, that, if you strike at him with the firm and decided arm of justice, you will…”

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?