Justin Dyer – Might and Right: Theology and Politics in the Making of America

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Two central concepts in American political thought are the rule of law and the moral limits of sovereign power. In the founding era, prominent political actors, writers, and pamphleteers frequently discussed these political concepts by analogy to the related theological concepts of divine rule and sovereignty. The dominant tradition of thinking about these concepts in […]