1 Samuel 8:7

And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

From Background Notes [BN] for Mar 19th & 20th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Who will lead us? The American national debate persistently asks that question. In times of crisis and uncertainty, democracies use the ballot not the bomb to reach a consensus. But as Churchill once noted:

Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

To the founding fathers and leaders of the American Revolution, almost any form of government was preferable to the tyranny of monarchy as experienced under George III. America’s dislike for kings runs deep in its national creed, as a casual reading of the Declaration of Independence reveals. Too much power in the hands of too few is the recipe for despotism. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton wrote in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887. He added, “Great men are always bad men,” perhaps a more debatable assessment. William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain during its war with the colonies, penned similar thoughts when he told the House of Lords in 1770, “Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.” George Washington, upon taking office as the nation’s first President, refused titles of royalty, such as “his majesty,” answering to the simple designation of “Mr. President.” One major reason that the founders of our republic eschewed monarchy was their firm belief that human beings already have God as their king. [BN,1]

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