On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is on some such principles that the majority of the people of England, far from thinking a religious national establishment unlawful, hardly think it lawful to be without one.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the deeply ingrained English belief in the necessity and lawfulness of a national religious establishment.
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