Edmund Burke: “I suspect that here, too, if we contrive to oppose this bill, we shall be found in a struggle against the nature of…”

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

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.