Edmund Burke: “But they are specious, and sufficiently so to delude a man of sense and of integrity.”

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

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.