Parents may not be consenting to their moral relation; but, consenting or not, they are bound to a long train of burdensome duties towards those with whom they have never made a convention of any sort.
Burke discusses the inherent responsibilities of parents towards their children, regardless of consent.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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