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To: Alex Murphy
The three branches of the U.S. Government: Judicial, Legislative, Executive

• At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22;

“For the LORD is our judge,

the LORD is our lawgiver,

the LORD is our king;

He will save us.”

6 posted on 06/14/2010 7:49:47 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Manic_Episode
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22

This does not mean that Madison wanted Biblical law to govern the United States. It is one thing for an individual leader or government to learn principles for governing from the Bible. It is quite another to use Biblical law as the model for a nation's law. The former is legitimate. The latter lacks an understanding of what Biblical Law is all about.

8 posted on 06/14/2010 7:55:50 AM PDT by Guyin4Os (A messianic ger-tsedek)
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