Faces of Federalism: From Bullinger to Jefferson

Wayne J Baker

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 30, issue 4, 25-41

Abstract: This study argues that the eighteenth-century political philosophy of federalism found its roots in covenant theology of early Reformed Protestantism in Zurich. It contends that there was a progression covenant or federal thought from the first published articulation of the theological covenant by Bullinger in 1534, through the use of the covenant notion in defense of tyrannicide by Philippe Mornay, to Johannes Althusius's political philosophy of federalism, as well as the political theories Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. These different faces or variations of federalism shared several common elements over the 250-year span. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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