Edmund Burke: “The body of disfranchised men will not be perfectly satisfied to remain always in that state.”

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

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…