Edmund Burke: “Franchises were supposed to belong to the subject, as a subject, and not as a member of the governing part of the state.”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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