Magna Charta, which secured these franchises to the subjects, regarded the rights of freeholders in counties to be as much a fundamental part of the Constitution as the establishment of the Church of England was thought either at that time, or in the act of King William, or in the act of Queen Anne.
Burke asserts that Magna Charta's provisions are fundamental to the Constitution, akin to the Church of England's establishment.
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