Is not such an Irish tax as is now proposed a virtual declaration that England is a foreign country, and a renunciation on your part of the principle of common naturalization, which runs through this whole empire?
Burke argues that the proposed Irish tax implies that England is treated as a foreign entity, undermining unity within the empire.
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