Edmund Burke: “Bribes was to be the foundation of their confidence in him, and the clear explanation of them was to entitle him to…”

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

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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.