But if such confederacies, cemented by such means, are suffered to pass without due animadversion, the authority of Parliament must become as inefficacious as all other authorities have proved to restrain the growth of disorders either in India or in Europe.
Burke warns that unchecked conspiracies can undermine parliamentary authority and lead to disorder.
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The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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