Edmund Burke: “They begin more and more plainly to discern that we have all a common cause, as against a common enemy.”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.

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

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…