Edmund Burke: “A worse choice for such an office in a new commonwealth than that of a deposed tyrant could not possibly be made.”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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