Edmund Burke: “With a Regicide peace the king cannot long have a minister to serve him, nor the minister a king to serve.”

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

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

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.