It is a sovereignty of the people therefore, which isperfectly identical with atheism. And herein lies its self-abasement. In thesphere of Calvinism, as also in your Declaration, the knee is bowed toGod, while over against man the head is proudly lifted up. But here, fromthe standpoint of the sovereignty of the people, the fist is defiantlyclenched against God, while man grovels before his fellowmen, tinselingover this self-abasement by the ludicrous fiction that, thousands of yearsago, men, of whom no one has any remembrance, concluded a politicalcontract, or, as they called it, 'Contrat Social.
Abraham Kuyper — Calvinism: The Stone Lectures
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