When enumerating powers to the Executive branch, the Framers did not want a king. This concern was captured best before the Revolution in Thomas Paine’s essay Common Sense.

Paine reasoned from Judges 8 where he says, “Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews, for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them. The history of that transaction is worth attending to. The children of Israel being oppressed by the Midianites, Gideon marched against them with a small army, and victory through the divine interposition decided in his favour. The Jews, elate with success, and attributing it to the generalship of Gideon, proposed making him a king, saying, “Rule thou over us, thou and thy son, and thy son’s son.” Here was temptation in its fullest extent; not a kingdom only, but an hereditary one; but Gideon in the piety of his soul replied, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The Lord shall rule over you.” Words need not be more explicit: Gideon doth not decline the honour, but denieth their right to give it; neither doth he compliment them with invented declarations of his thanks, but in the positive style of a prophet charges them with disaffection to their proper Sovereign, the King of Heaven.

Then Paine uses the example from 1 Samuel 8 where the Israelites ask Samuel for a king. God warns them that a king will take their sons, daughters, fields, vineyards, servants, herds of cattle and sheep and they would be his slaves.

Paine closes this section with, “That the Almighty hath here entered His protest against monarchical government is true, or the scripture is false.”

Father may America once again want to carry our God given rights and want ‘No other king, but King Jesus.’ May we once again teach Your Word so well to our children and culture that even unbelievers reason from the Bible. In Jesus Holy Name, Amen.

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