Edmund Burke: “Here I come upon the principle which I wish most strongly to mark to your Lordships: I mean collusive trials and…”

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

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

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

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