Edmund Burke: “Such has been the system of this government, that the oppressions have generally originated with the aumils.”

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

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.

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

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.