It was plain that, till this superstition was extinct, the constitution could never be secure.

For a really limited monarchy cannot long exist in a society which regards monarchy as something divine, and the limitations as mere human inventions.

Royalty, in order that it might exist in perfect harmony with our liberties, must be unable to show any higher or more venerable title than that by which we hold our liberties.

The King must be henceforth regarded as a magistrate, a great magistrate indeed and highly to be honoured, but subject, like all other magistrates, to the law, and deriving his power from heaven in no other sense than that in which the Lords and the Commons may be said to derive their power from heaven.

The best way of effecting this salutary change would be to interrupt the course of descent.