They knew that Toleration and the Establishment were of the essence of the Constitution.

Were once the Whig oligarchy overthrown, corruption would cease and Parliament could no longer hope to dominate the kingdom.

"The ministers," he said, "will depend on the Crown not the Crown on ministers" if George but showed "his resolution to break all factitious connections and confederacies." The tone is Bolingbroke's, and it was the lesson George had insistently heard from early youth.

How sinister was the advice, men did not see until the elder Pitt was in political exile, with Wilkes an outlaw, and general warrants threatening the whole basis of past liberties.
The first writer who pointed out in unmistakable terms the meaning of the new synthesis was Junius.

That his anonymity concealed the malignant talent of Sir Philip Francis seems now beyond denial.