Union, and established a government of their own.”46 According to Charles Hodge, this resolution virtually declared that the allegiance of the whole Presbyterian Church, North, South, East and West, “is due to the United States, anything in the Constitution, ordinances or laws of the several States to the contrary notwithstanding,” and not only decides the “political question referred to, but makes that decision a term of membership in our Church,” thus usurping the “prerogatives of the Divine Master.”47
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