Edmund Burke: “It takes in too many views, it makes too many combinations, to be so much as comprehended by shallow and superficial…”

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.