Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
Burke questions whether the new theories intend to retroactively delegitimize all past English monarchs, thereby branding the throne with continuous usurpation.
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