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 of England; and, therefore, there was no reason why they should "much deny” the opinion of Chief Justice Huffey, since the particular case before them did not require it.

But the like excuse cannot be made for Sir Edward Coke, who, in Calvin's case, seems to have adopted the opinion of Chief Justice Huffy, and yet has not considered the nature of the case on which the same was delivered, having declared a similar opinion in an indiscriminate general sense (5), without paying the least regard to just distinction between the external and internal Government of Ireland, which the other Judges had before so clearly laid down and confirmed by an unanswerable reason (6) why the Irish