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trate a government on the fact that it was constitutionally framed? Parallel cases: Ireland, Scotland. But let us look at parallel cases, and they are by no means wanting. In the year 1800, a ught on the part of Ireland, by her own act, to sever her union with England? Again, in 1706, Scotland and England formed a Constitutional Union. They also, though subject to the same monarch, were, remained in force. Rapin's History of England, vol. IV., p. 741-6. A powerful minority in Scotland disapproved of the Union at the time. Nine years afterward an insurrection broke out in ScotlaScotland under a prince, who claimed to be the lawful, as he certainly was the lineal, heir to the throne. The rebellion was crushed, but the disaffection in which it had its origin was not wholly appeasedher occasion that I ever heard of, did it enter into the imagination of rebel or loyalist, that Scotland was acting under a reserved right as a sovereign kingdom, to secede from the Union, or that the