Edmund Burke: “My Lords, the situation is new and awful: the situation is such as, I believe, and I am sure, has nothing like it on the…”

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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?

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