Excerpt from A Political View of the Roman Catholic Question: Especially Regarding the Supremacy Usurped by the Church of Rome Over Other Christian Churches, and Still Claimed by That Church as Due to It by Divine Right There was a gross and manifest fallacy in their thus pretending to claim the full benefits of the British laws and constitution, at the same time that they professed themselves to'be desirous of remain-7 ing under subjection to a power, the existence of which, within the British islands, was inconsistent with the most-important principles of the British constitution; a power claiming superiority over the British constitution and government, and the British laws, made to preserve the independence of that government; a power claiming a right to control the British government in the exercise of its authority, in any matter which that' power might think fit to assume as within its own peculiar prerogative. Freedom from the tyranny of that power was one of the great benefits which their fellow-subjects derived from the British laws and constitution and it was ridiculous for the Roman Cotholics, professing themselves the willing _slaves of that power, to pretend a desire to participate in the full benefit of those laws and of that constitu tion, upon equal terms with their fellow-subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.