Edmund Burke: “The manner of obtaining them is something so shocking, and contains such a number of enormities completed in one act…”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…