When any other person was on the throne, though he might be an Alfred, there was to be no obedience.

It mattered not how frantic and wicked might be the administration of the dynasty which had the hereditary title, or how wise and virtuous might be the administration of a government sprung from a revolution.

Nor could any time of limitation be pleaded against the claim of the expelled family.
The lapse of years, the lapse of ages, made no change.

To the end of the world, Christians were to regulate their political conduct simply according to the genealogy of their ruler.

The year 1800, the year 1900, might find princes who derived their title from the votes of the Convention reigning in peace and prosperity.