Edmund Burke: “What incomprehensible spirit of delirium and delusion has all at once led them astray?”

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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

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

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.