Shelley Rigger 18 April 2002 | |
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Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz, Gewalt, Gewaltenteilung, In Evangelisches Soziallexikon, col | The final crisis of the Stuart monarchy: the revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European contexts, Chapter 3 |
Compound or mixed governments reflect the reality that human frailty justifies and necessitates institutional checks and balances to the magistrate's presumed propensity to abuse power.
A companion to the American Revolution, Ch | |
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Calvin's republican sympathies derived from his view of human nature as deeply flawed | It was this commitment to checks and balances that became the basis of Calvin's resistance theory, according to which inferior magistrates have a duty to resist or restrain a tyrannical sovereign |