Covenanted Governments

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Compact. This compact stated that all aboard the ship headed for the “new city of God”, were under the rule of God. Here is the clincher: even though it was a government under the rule of God, the agreement was that the people in God’s name would run the institutions of government. People executed God’s will his “permission”. In these times, people believe that they were carrying out God’s name and very will. These people weren’t bound together by caprice and whim, but for and out of necessity and deep-rooted religious beliefs. They formed a civil body politics so they may increase their chances at survival.
The next vital document that was created in the “New World” was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. This document was closely related to the Mayflower Compact in that it was made in the name of God, it established a theocracy. This document brought people together in a tacit agreement that they would obey the word of God, as interpreted by the people and the ...

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(property). Government became a contract between man and man. It protected individual rights (natural rights) in exchange for freedom. How is this possible? According to the rational behind this, man is obviously very ambitions and greedy, desiring things of the world, and seeing himself as an individual outside of nature. He sees himself above nature. He defines his world and everything is there for him to use, at his disposal. That is why property was one of the underlying reasons for government, because man is interested only in himself and material again. Society supplied the allowance for property as well as the grounds for keeping it. This was the liberty allowed. Liberty ...

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