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Lex, Rex, or the Law and the Prince is unavailable, but you can change that!

Published in response to Bishop John Maxwell’s “Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas,” Lex, Rex is a comprehensive defense of the Scottish Presbyterian ideal in politics that defends the rule of law and the lawfulness of defensive wars. Advocating for limited government, it supports a “Two Kingdoms” theory of church-state relations and utilizes Scripture and Natural Law arguments. Highly controversial,...

but supposing that men be combined in societies, or that one family cannot contain a society, it is natural that they join in a civil society, though the manner of union in a politic body, as Bodine saith,1 be voluntary, Gen. 10:10; 15:7; and Suarez saith,2 That a power of making laws is given by God as a property flowing from nature, Qui dat formam, dat consequentia ad formam; not by any special action or grant, different from creation, nor will he have it to result from nature, while men be united
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