 | Stuart Semmel - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 354 pages
...employed) depended upon the fact that he could be removed at any moment. George III, Price declared, was "almost the only lawful King in the world, because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of the people."38 George's right to rule did not depend upon his ancestry, but upon popular approval.... | |
 | Craig Nelson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 396 pages
...Hobbes-Locke encomium that England's monarch "is almost the only lawful king in the world because he is the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people." Burke called this idea "nonsense and therefore neither true nor false, or it affirms a most unfounded,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1951 - 361 pages
...affect our constitution in its vital parts. He tells the Revolution Society, in this political sermon, that his majesty "is "almost the only lawful king...the choice of his people." As to the kings of the wor/d, all of whom (except one) this arch pontiff of the rights of men, with all the plenitude, and... | |
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is almost the only lawful king in the world, because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people. 
