It is subject neither to nonage, nor dotage.

It is never in the cradle, nor on crutches.

It admits not of a separation between knowledge and power, and is superior, as government always ought to be, to all the accidents of individual man, and is therefore superior to what is called monarchy.
A nation is not a body, the figure of which is to be represented by the human body; but is like a body contained within a circle, having a common center, in which every radius meets; and that center is formed by representation.

To connect representation with what is called monarchy, is eccentric government.

Representation is of itself the delegated monarchy of a nation, and cannot debase itself by dividing it with another.
Mr.Burke has two or three times, in his parliamentary speeches, and in his publications, made use of a jingle of words that convey no ideas.
Speaking of government, he says, "It is better to have monarchy for its basis, and republicanism for its corrective, than republicanism for its basis, and monarchy for its corrective."-- If he means that it is better to correct folly with wisdom, than wisdom with folly, I will no otherwise contend with him, than that it would be much better to reject the folly entirely.
But what is this thing which Mr.Burke calls monarchy?
Will he explain it?
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.