Their legislator, whoever he was, (for who he was is a matter lost in the mists of a most obscure antiquity,) had it as a great leading principle of his policy to connect the people with their soil.
Burke reflects on the historical obscurity of a legislator who connected people to their land as a guiding principle.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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