All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. Edmund Burke On Conciliation with America (1775)

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