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If you look back a few hundred years and go back a few pages to the section “From the Plantagenets to the Roses,” you can see that one of the early struggles between Church and State started with Henry IIHenry II. Struggles between CatholicsCatholics and ProtestantsProtestants characterized the section “from King Henry to Cromwell” and resulted in many a death. While religion still seems to play a violent role in Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland, we can look at one government act as the end of most of the violent problems between Catholics and Protestants in EnglandEngland, ScotlandScotland, and WalesWales. One of the most influential figures of the 19^th century and a British (now we can use the term “British”) prime minister, the Duke of WellingtonDuke of Wellington, persuaded Parliament and a reluctant King George IVGeorge IV to pass an act that gave Irish and English Catholics all political rights including the right to almost all government posts, except to the monarchy, which was still in the hands of the Protestant GermanGerman Georges.