Edmund Burke: “They have not only annulled all their old treaties, but they have renounced the law of nations, from whence treaties…”

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.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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