Having mentioned that act as one happy consequence of the Revolution, he addeth,--"However injuriously that revolution hath been traduced, whatever attempts have been made to subvert this happy establishment founded on it, your Lordships will now have the benefit of that law in its full extent.
Burke reflects on the positive outcomes of the Revolution and the legal benefits it provides.
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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.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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