And the Commons take leave to observe, that the authority of this Parliamentary settlement is a matter of the greatest consequence to maintain, in a case where the hereditary right to the crown is contested.
Burke notes the significance of maintaining the authority of the Parliamentary settlement in contested royal succession.
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