The Independents took this step, not only by adopting the noted opposition ideas, but by transferring the principles of their new contractual religious community to the state.
Their task, as Thomas Harrison put it, was to create a political form on the basis of civil and spiritual freedom to preserve the bestowed grace of God?). Following the tyranomaches, who, according to Gierke, had already conceived the idea of representation, of federalism, prepared the idea of a legal state, the independents, as we will see below, gave the theory of popular power an even more definite form.
These are the people, according to Weingarten 3), who should be considered the first founders of that teaching about the natural obedience; both in secular and religious matters, he was obliged to either recognize or reject these claims, depending on whether they were consistent or not with his highest duty before God (Puritan England 1603-1660).
1) Based on the direct election of God, the consciousness of such a mission was deeply rooted in the soul of every independent.
2) Shoot him after the Battle of Worcester.
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h Vik y right, which, later developed by Rousseau, caused a storm of European revolution. The idea expressed by Hermann Weingarten was learned and developed by the Heidelberg scientist Prof. Jellinek in his "Pe Egagipe eg Menzsvel un @ Vigoeggesche".
To me, Weingarten, adopted by Jellinek, concerns mainly American independents.
According to the conditions of their lives and according to their theoretical views, Roger Williams, John Cotton and others focused their attention on the political side of democracy; and in their pamelettes, read with undiminished interest on the British islands, they dealt with issues of state law. This was facilitated by an extremely important circumstance.
Colonist Roger's predecessors were Puritans and right-wing the wing of the Independents—the “gentlemen”—theoretically proclaimed freedom of religion and worship. In their religious views, they themselves stood on the principle of religious individualism, and Cromwell to a large extent even exercised the said freedom, but in fact they sometimes showed great intolerance. It is known that the Puritans did not allow the Koran to be translated into English and suppressed the Jewish religion, but it was Cromwell who rebelled against atheism, and then the father of modern constitutionalism, John Locke. (Levellers) is the first embryo of the well-known teaching of the French writers of the 18th century, including Rousseau, about rights that are prior in time and superior in dignity to any kind of positive law (Anyonecheit ee biromeigs ackh 1015 roses) -.
Vegpsee. (Seseebe es Zosiazi8) call "aoteteto 0Ё \e reorie" the predecessor of the "social contract", This is the same meaning about the work and activity of the independent colonist 122; Williams, Jellinek (Egk!&gate e{s.), etc.
r) Subsequently, there were disagreements between them regarding the substantiation of their theories. Cotton was a supporter of the prevailing theocratic principles. William the Saint into a politician.
2) What evidence has been preserved from his contemporaries, even those who were not disposed towards him. (See Carlyle: Cromwell's Speeches and Letters).
The first Schoners of the new SVFT, who themselves abandoned the old one because of religious strife, first of all recognized the inalienable and inviolable right of religious conscience and its manifestation to such an extent that atheism was punished by them and for the first time introduced into the sphere of tolerance ').