King George II Quotes
No papist, though not convicted as such, shall be entitled to vote at the election of any member to serve in parliament, or at the election of any magistrate for any city or other town corporate.
George II, 1683-1760, King of England, An Act for the further regulating the Election of Members of Parliament, 1727
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In this extraordinary act, the people who are persecuted are made to pay extra taxes to facilitate their persecution
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See Justice Richard Cox for a similar view.
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Louisiana was then a possession of France
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First Irish Bishop in the United States and the First Catholic Cardinal of New York. Moscow had just been burned by the French. No New York Catholic churches were harmed.
This sura has unfortunately been used by some Serbians and other Christians to justify ethnic cleansing against Muslims.
George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.
