Thomas Reed Quotes
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
Wister, Owen. Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship. The Macmillan Company, 1930, p. 51.
Liberal has a somewhat different meaning in English politics than the word as used in America. In England, the opponents of conservatives are of the Labour Party. The Liberals are a third party who on some issues are liberal in American terms and on others, conservative. However, they are very tolerant and somewhat intellectual.
Most European monarchies and strong, powerful states were theocratic empires and had as their foundation a ruling family and a national church. In Japan, the churches were politically weak, and so the designers of the Japanese empire created the concept of a divine emperor where spiritual and temporal power could be the embodiment of the state which in their view had to have both dimensions. See Ito’s statement on the subject: {604492}
This verse has been one of the bases of Muslim theocratic states like Iran’s claim to legitimacy. The word “govern” is sometimes translated as “judge.” In the context of the 6th century, there were no separation of powers as we know them and judging, governing and legislating were melded.
Thomas Brackett Reed, was an American politician from the state of Maine. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives 12 times, first in 1876, and served as Speaker of the House, from 1889 to 1891 and again from 1895 to 1899.
