Constitutionalism(立憲主義)の神学的起源 : アメリカ・ピューリタニズムの法制度への貢献

All the pregnant ideas and institutions of modern political thought are in essence secularized forms of theological doctrines and institutions as Carl Schmitt has ever said. The modern constitutionalism, the idea to prescribe by constitution what state or federal ought to be, is deemed to be derived from theological doctrines of seventeenth-century American Puritan. Three main theological doctrines lay at the foundation of Puritan constitutionalism: the doctrines of covenant, separation of church and state, and sin