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"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
You're both partly right, the Puritans were part of the CofE at the time (just as the Evangelicals are today), and were not placed under restrictions. However, the paid immigrants were, irrc, High Church in the main, certainly the new landowners were.
Even so, a certain amount of the Calvinstically infected did make their way to Ireland, and this is why you have both a significant Anglo-Catholic and Calvinistic population today.
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