Edmund Burke: “Instead of all this cunning, is there not one plain way open,--that is, to put the burden of the proof on those who make…”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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

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