Edmund Burke: “They have stood firm on their ancient base; they have cast their roots deep in their native soil,--perhaps because they…”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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