Edmund Burke: “Tell me, my Muse, what monstrous, dire offence, What crime could any Christian king incense To such a rage?”

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

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.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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