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Lex Rex was originally a volume written in 1644 at a time when England was at war with itself. The king, Charles I, had attempted to enforce an absolute dominion through a claim of divine right. Written by Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex spelled out the Parliament’s case that constitutional law was the highest rule in the land, and that the king (Rex) was accountable to both God and to his country under that rule of law (Lex). By way of a king’s coronation oath, he was bound in mutual covenantal obligation with the people of his realm: “[H]ere is an Oath betwixt the King and his people, laying on, by reciprocation of bands, mutuall civill obligations upon theKings, 2 Sam. 5.3.” Thus, according to the Reformed Christian idea of governing civility, there was no room for the king to be above the lawful, civil covenant which mutually bound him with the people.

It was by way of the historic legal legacy of such early biblical reformers that America’s founding fathers modeled the balance of powers that we enjoy today. The covenantal nature of our republic (with a nation of people bound under constitutional laws with civil rulers mutually bound by constitutional oaths of office) ensures that the rule of law reigns over the rule of men. The principles expounded in Lex Rex therefore secured for America an equitable frame of government along with biblically consistent moral civility. We have therefore adopted Lex Rex as our name.