Edmund Burke: “The authority of the regular and lawful government is everywhere and in every point extinguished.”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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