“You missed the point of the mini treatise, the recognition of man as the building block of legitimate government could not come until the institution which ordained a top-down rather than a bottom-up legitimacy was reformed.”
1) Which is more legitimate: God or man?
2) If you really believe there is a “bottom-up legitimacy” to the U.S. government then wouldn’t it have to be based upon “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”? Doesn’t that mean everything good men have is from a Creator and they must act in accordance to have life, liberty and happiness”?
So how is that any less “top down” than the framework you erroneously applied to medieval society?