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Calvinism and666[Oct.and offers the people a natural protection against despotism and ambitious schemes. This is system. There is consequence in this. It is altogether different from the plan of the French theorists, who also clamor for liberties, but begin with a recital of ...
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Calvinism and654[Oct.revolutionary ideas on the sovereignty of the people are found in the writingsof Boethius, Commines, Montaigne, andanus, and there was solittleThu-respect for the authority of theking, that, in 1478, one, Oliver M ...
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1667Constitutional Liberties.895-]out consulting the Scriptures, were led by the light of divine approbation to cherish the thought of a constitution of the people, which destroys not the hereditary rights of the throne,Thebut limits the powers of the cro ...
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1Constitutional Liberties.895-]655but the dispensers of power, who, independent of the the king, hold seatsThese are "regnipoliticalinofificiarii,not of the king.nonking are dependent on theHence of the former the ...
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Calvinism mid656[Oct.traits for the preservationof civil liberty; since from historyappears that America's United States, where to this day the liberty-plant thrives most luxuriantly, owes its glory not itto the French Revolution but to Puritanic heroism; since, ...
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Calvinism and668[Oct.well as Reformed heroes have defended the people's rights and liberties against the Alvas and the Vargas. At Calvin's appearance the Christian church also was already fifteen hundred years old, and that through her spiritual offspring she took no part wit ...
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1Constitutional Liberties.895-]Heillimitable."thereforeis in657favor of parliaments, depu-superiors of the people, viagistratus infcriores, withties,sovereignty eachin their circle.These, and not private ...
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Constitutional Liberties.1895 •]659honor the leaders. Sovereignty can be imposed by God upon a few, upon many, and upon all. This does not touch the If, however, Calvin is free to choose, he preprinciple itself. fers a republic.Heread too closely the annals of t ...
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