Calvinism - pagina 11
1Constitutional Liberties.895-]way of653a social contract, and for the sake of the advantageswhich accrue from an are the very ideas ofTheseestablislied order of things."RousseauAnd we!"Theread further: ...
Calvinism - pagina 12
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 ...
Calvinism - pagina 13
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 ...
Calvinism - pagina 14
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, ...
Calvinism - pagina 15
1Constitutional Liberties.895-]Heillimitable."thereforeis in657favor of parliaments, depu-superiors of the people, viagistratus infcriores, withties,sovereignty eachin their circle.These, and not private ...
Calvinism - pagina 16
Calvinism and658tion of every form of worshipSecondly,wethe droit divin.[OCt.and of everybody's conscience. Calvin also honorsconsider sovereignty,Highest authorityracy reigns Dei gratia.crown, not to the person.i ...
Calvinism - pagina 17
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 ...
Calvinism - pagina 18
Calvinism and66o[Oct.ing from this principle, he himself, as appears from his cor-respondence, published by Bonnet, assisted in raisingGerman troops who wentfor theto France.moneyIn this sense"the Silent," "As a Prince of Orang ...
Calvinism - pagina 19
1Thereno causeisfor surpriseif,answer tointhis ques-even though apparently most contradictory, the funda-tion,mental doctrine of the Calvinists For, from sovereignity of God. that66iConstitutional Libo'ties ...
Calvinism - pagina 20
Calvinism and662[Oct.ferent persons," but echoes the evil doctrnie of ancient date,which marks princes as a sort of higher beings, but which cannot accord with the confession of the free sovereignty ofTheGod.only lately thefact thatDu ...