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Edmund Burke: This is to show that at no time was the Protestant religion, undefined, established here or anywhere else, as I believe.

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This is to show that at no time was the Protestant religion, undefined, established here or anywhere else, as I believe.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the Protestant religion was never established in an undefined manner.

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