Edmund Burke: “If ever there was a time favorable for establishing the principle that a king of popular choice was the only legal king…”

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.