Edmund Burke: “We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire.”

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

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?