Edmund Burke: “He who has dominion over the caste has an absolute power over something more than life and fortune.”

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.