Edmund Burke: “This second revolution forms that period in the Bengal history which had the most direct influence upon all the…”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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