Edmund Burke: “It is the compact on which society is formed that makes both.”

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.

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

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…