Abstract
This study argues that the eighteenth-century political philosophy of federalism found its roots in the covenant theology of early Reformed Protestantism in Zurich. It contends that there was a progression in covenant orfederal thought from the first published articulation of the theological covenant by Heinrich Bullinger in 1534, through the use of the covenant notion in defense of tyrannicide by Philippe DuplessisMornay, to Johannes Althusius's political philosophy of federalism, as well as the political theories of Thomas Hobbes andJohn Locke, to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. These different faces or variations offederalism shared several common elements over the 250year span.
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