King (infallibility of the.)

.—By the express declaration of our laws, an English prince is a piece of royal infallibility, incapable of doing wrong. The position that a king can do no wrong, must either tax the English nation with great injustice, or great inconsistency. If a king can do no wrong, why was king James the Second banished? and if a king can do no wrong, why the plague are we constantly affirming that he cannot? Either way we stand self-condemned; and if we are not set down as a nation of scoundrels, we must think ourselves pretty easy under the appellation of fools.

Swift.