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In Our Program, Kuyper makes a comprehensive effort to counter the secular politics of his day with a Christian alternative. In an era where the church usually either controlled or was controlled by the state, Kuyper showed that it was possible to frame a political program in which church and state engage while remaining separate. Though couched in its particular time and place, Kuyper’s...

The party locates the source of sovereign authority not in the will of the people, nor in the law, but solely in God, and therefore it rejects popular sovereignty on the one hand and on the other it honors the sovereignty of Orange that under God’s guidance is rooted in the history of our country and was brought to development by the men of 1813 and confirmed as such in the Constitution. ARTICLE 2 1 Sovereignty in an absolute sense occurs
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