G. R. Badenoch on the Protestantism of the British Constitution

[Reformed Covenanter]

[T]he British Constitution is essentially Protestant. Take away the Protestantism of it, and it no longer is the British Constitution as at present established by law. ... the British Government, in supporting or maintaining Popery, in any shape or form, is acting inconsistently with its own Constitution ...

G. R. Badenoch, ‘The Protestantism of the British Constitution’ in J. A. Wylie (ed.), Ter-Centenary of the Scottish Reformation, as Commemorated at Edinburgh, August 1860 (Edinburgh: John MacLaren, 1860), p. 192, 193.

P.S. G. R. Badenoch was involved with the Scottish Reformation Society, but I cannot find a picture of him anywhere online. Does anyone know of one?

 

[Jie-Huli]

Thank you for posting this.

One reason I oppose any tinkering with the Constitution at all is that this could so easily result in a weakening of its Protestant Christian nature. And certainly any attempt (sometimes mooted) to frame a new written Constitution by the current breed of politicians would be disastrous in its effect.