Joseph Huntington Quotes
The infinitely wise and good Being has given us the sum and substance of the most perfect form of civil government in his word.... I mean that ancient plan of civil policy, delineated for the chosen tribes of Israel. In that divinely authorized constitution, we find no king, no despot, no emperor, no tyrant, no perpetual dictator allowed of.
The photo is Rev, Hunting’s original house—a historical landmark in Connecticut.
Joseph Huntington, 1735-1794, Connecticut Protestant Minister & Scholar, A Discourse, Adapted to the Present Day on the Health and Happiness, or Misery and Ruin, of the Body Politic, In Similitude to that of the Natural Body, 1781
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Anthony Ashley Cooper
the Jews of Ancient Israel
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
At the start of the state of Israel, he wanted a written Constitution. However the first 60 person Knesset failed to agree upon enough to generate one. Nimerous attempts have been made, but there are few significant constitutional positions that a majority of the fractious Israeli population can agree upon. Israel at the end of te 20th century had given up on a constitution and became a legislative and common law nation. It is perhaps the hardest nation in which to practive law in that the common law that is recognized is based on Turkish Ottoman Law, Englaish Law and Jordanian law. Each of these was controlling at times in the recent past.
This is one of the best, short, historical summaries of the Ancient Jews’ governmental structure after the Exodus from Egypt. They had, to the best of our knowledge, the first republic, although the orthodox Jews do not credit the Jewish people. It was the Almighty who created the Republic and ordered them to live under it. Later, the Jews wanted Kings, and they had them, destroying the Jewish Republic and creating a Jewish Empire where the kings ranged from good to horrible. Ultra-orthodox Jews in modern Israel, reject the Democracy, and believe. Like ultra-orthodox Muslims, that God rules and not kings or the people or representatives chosen by the people.
With the dissatisfaction with the British monarchy rising, American colonial leaders were considering many different alternatives. This quotation shows us that the year before Bunker Hill, the colonials were already thinking about independence but were examining alternatives for the new independent nation. The Jewish Republic was one that a number of Americans considered and some aspects of its civil law were incorporated into some independent State Governments and influenced thinking about the Federal Government in 1787.
Joseph ben Matthias. There a different kinds of theocracy, There can be a Pope, a King, or a Supreme Leader who acts as the chief magistrate using a religious tract as the law of the land. The Ancient Jews had a Republican Theocracy were the leaders were chosen by the people but they did not promulgate any laws. The Torah—the first 5 books of the Old Testament—was the law of the land. In comparison. 21st century Iran recognized the Koran as the source of Laws. However, their chief magistrate was a cleric—the supreme leader who is not elected but appointed by a few other clerics. None of the other Iranian leaders are chosen by the people because all candidates must be approved by the Supreme Leader in order to even stand for election. So the ancient Jews had a republican theocracy, while Iran was an autocratic theocracy.
