ABSTRACT
The bi-confessional polity of Georgian Britain was fundamentally different from uni-confessional polities with which ancien regime studies lump it. In the political theory of a classic monist confessional realm, there juridically is (or ought to be) only one king, one faith, and one law. Transparently in Britain after 1689, and even after the Union of England and Scotland into Great Britain in 1707, that was not the case. In Great Britain 1707-1800, there was certainly one king, but juridically speaking there were two faiths, and two laws. Actually, in light of the refocus of attention on the survival of Jacobitism 1689-1789, we might as well claim two kings, two faiths, and two laws and complete the parallel.
