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for having omitted this sixth Proposition! for he cannot be ignorant of the legal and established mode of extending the English Constitution to countries detached from this island, be cause we have a standing precedent and example (which has long subsisted, and has been universally allowed) in the present government of Ireland; for that island, though unjustly conquered by our ancestors, enjoys (or, at least, is allowed to be entitled to) the same constitutional privileges as the seat of empire, England itself. The respective Parliaments of the two islands are entirely independent of each other; they separately grant, from time to time, the necessary supplies to the state; and no man may presume to deny their right of enquiring respectively into the application of them. But, notwithstanding this distinct economy, and the entire independency of the natives or subjects,