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But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the unique nature of Protestantism in the northern colonies as a heightened form of resistance.
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