Kingdom of England & Wales, and The United Kingdom of Great Britain
The early modern United Kingdom (England & Wales & later including Scotland) included both an accessory union and aeque principali union. The union between England and Wales was an accessory union as English rules and laws were granted to Wales in the Acts of Union of 1536 and 1543. In contrast the union between England and Scotland involved the preservation of institutions customs and legal traditions peculiar to Scotland. In Scotland for example, the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian Church) was preserved, while no separate church for Wales remained. England and Wales integrated, while Scotland retained many of its unique institutions and traditions, for example Scottish law.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
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—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“I’ th’ world’s volume
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In a great pool a swan’s nest.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)