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And consequently if Lord Coke’s Doctrine (for which he has cited these examples) had, in those early times, been current, viz. that “by special words the Parliament of England may bind the Subjects of Ireland,” it is apparent, that the same could not have been understood in any other light than that of including a due representation of the Irish Parliament within the Parliament of England; which the examples themselves sufficiently demonstrate (14):