But unfortunate events since that time may make something further necessary,--and not more necessary for the satisfaction of the colonies than for the dignity and consistency of our own future proceedings.
Burke reflects on the need for further actions in response to unfortunate events affecting the colonies and British dignity.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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.
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