I wish it well, because it is more closely combined than any other of the church systems with the crown, which is the stay of the mixed Constitution,--because it is, as things now stand, the sole connecting political principle between the constitutions of the two independent kingdoms.
Burke argues that a specific church system is vital for the political connection between two kingdoms.
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