text:  We argue therefore that it could not have prevented their secession even as regards that part of their pretensions; whilst as regards the monstrous claim to decide in the last resort what shall be civil and what spiritual--that is in a question of clashing jurisdiction to settle on their own behalf where shall fall the boundary line--it may be supposed that Lord Aberdeen would no more countenance their claim in any point of practice than all rational legislators would countenance it as a theory