A political view of the Roman Catholic question : especially regarding the supremacy usurped by the Church of Rome over other Christian churches ; and still claimed by that church as due to it by divine right ; and still practically exercised by that church in Great Britain and Ireland, in defiance of the laws made for its exclusion ; a supremacy incompatible with important principles of the British institutions, incompatible with the freedom of the subjects of the British government of every religious denomination, and inconsistent with the independence which ought to be maintained by the British government in the discharge of all its functions