Edmund Burke: “There is scarce any object of curiosity more rational than the origin, the progress, and the various revolutions of…”

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

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.

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…