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Edmund Burke: “Church and State are ideas inseparable in their minds, and scarcely is the one ever mentioned without mentioning the…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Church and State are ideas inseparable in their minds, and scarcely is the one ever mentioned without mentioning the other.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke highlights the profound and inseparable conceptual link between Church and State in the English understanding of their society.

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