Edmund Burke: “The laws and Constitution of the kingdom intrust the sole and exclusive right of treating with foreign potentates to the…”

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

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.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.