I will not deny that our Constitution may have faults, and that those faults, when found, ought to be corrected; but, on the whole, that Constitution has been our own pride, and an object of admiration to all other nations.
Burke acknowledges the potential faults in the Constitution but defends its overall value and the pride it brings to the nation.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
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