Edmund Burke: “Nobles have violated the law: their privileges have not protected them from punishment.”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.