Government
"Let polity [civil government] acknowledge itself indebted to religion. ... So natural is the union of religion with justice that we may boldly deem there is neither where both are not" - United States Founding Influences, Reverend Richard Hooker, "The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker", (Oxford: The University Press, 1845) Vol. I, p. 427
Law
"And because the point about which we strive is the quality of our laws, our first entrance hereinto cannot better be made than with consideration of the nature of law in general ... namely the law whereby the Eternal Himself doth work. Proceeding from hence to the law, first of Nature, then of Scripture, we shall have the easier access unto those things which come after to be debated." - United States Founding Influences, Reverend Richard Hooker, "The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker", (Oxford: The University Press, 1845) Vol. I, p. 148
"For whereas god hath left sundry kinds of laws unto men, and by all those laws the actions of men are in some sort directed; they hold that the one only law, the Scripture, must be the rule to direct all things." - United States Founding Influences, Reverend Richard Hooker, "The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker", (Oxford: The University Press, 1845) Vol. I, p. 230
Rights
"The Scripture is fraught even with laws of Nature; insomuch that Gratian [twelth century philosopher] defining Natural Right ... termeth "Natural Right, that which the 'Books of the Law and the Gospel do contain.'"" - United States Founding Influences, Reverend Richard Hooker, "The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker", (Oxford: The University Press, 1845) Vol. I, p. 207
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