Walter Bagehot: “If an able Stuart had with credible sincerity professed Protestantism…”

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If an able Stuart had with credible sincerity professed Protestantism probably he might have overturned the House of Hanover.

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Walter Bagehot

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He speculates on the potential political outcomes had a capable Stuart monarch genuinely embraced Protestantism.

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