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When Human Law is NOT in Accord with the Eternal Law: St. Thomas Aquinas on Tyrannicide, Revolt, and Obedience to Unjust Laws.

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  When thinking about government and law and obedience or disobedience to government and law and, even, any act to overthrow a government, St. Thomas Aquinas, Universal Doctor of the Catholic Church, demanded that we think about the roots of all law, since law is that by which the rational mind orders itself to its proper ends.  In order to conceptualize how law plays a role in our human and civic lives, we have to, first, understand the hierarchy of types of law. We cite here, the information from the Summa Theologiae , I-II, Q. 90:  Eternal Law: This is the Plan, in the Divine Mind, by which God ordains all things that he has created to their proper, divinely determined, end. This type of law is "eternal" because it is part of the divine mind, which itself is eternal. It is unchanging, just as God Himself is eternally unchanging and utterly perfect. Natural Law: This is the orientation that God impresses upon the natures that He creates. This is an internal law of orientati
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Democratic Values Affirmed and Condoned by the Church, Correct? Wrong. The Church, through the teaching of Pope Leo XIII, clearly states that Popular Sovereignty is NOT an Acceptable Basis for the State.

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https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13civ.htm From the papal encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Diuturnum "On the Origin of Civil Power" (1881). 5. Indeed, very many men of more recent times, walking in the footsteps of those who in a former age assumed to themselves the name of philosophers,[2] say that all power comes from the people; so that those who exercise it in the State do so not as their own, but as delegated to them by the people, and that, by this rule, it can be revoked by the will of the very people by whom it was delegated. But from these, Catholics dissent, who affirm that the right to rule is from God, as from a natural and necessary principle. 6. It is of importance, however, to remark in this place that those who may be placed over the State may in certain cases be chosen by the will and decision of the multitude, without opposition to or impugning of the Catholic doctrine. And by this choice, in truth, the ruler is designated, but the rights of ruling are no
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Enlightenment System is Not Just Cracking, but Actually Being Smashed Down. Radical Proponents of "Liberty" Smashed into Jefferson's "Temple of Liberty" and Wanted to Stop "the Constitutional Process." Read WSJ 's Harrowing Account of Our Modern Revolutionary Moment.

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  https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-were-feet-and-seconds-away-from-confrontation-with-the-mob-in-the-capitol-11610481854
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Pro-Trump Protesters Beat Police Officer Protecting Capitol Entrance. During the Year that I supported Trump (November 2015 to November 2016), I never imagined that he would provoke such actions as these. He had the power to create a personality cult that just got totally out of hand and took over the Republican Party, the Conservative and Pro-Life Movements, and almost the US Government in its entirety.

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Article from the Independent Portrays Trump's Attitude towards His Followers. His Contempt for Anything "Low-Class" Makes it Easy for Him to Throw Them Under the Bus. Even the Coup Attempt Was "Low-Class," Disorganized, and Clownish.

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  https://www.yahoo.com/news/week-made-tragically-obvious-trump-132700079.html
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Francis Calls the United States back to its "Democratic Values." Are "democratic values" ever Christian? Not according to Pope Leo XIII.

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“I offer an affectionate greeting to the people of the United States, shaken by the recent siege of Congress,” the pope said in remarks delivered from inside the Apostolic Palace, instead of from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square due to the pandemic. “I pray for those who lost their lives, five (persons), in those dramatic moments.” “Nothing is gained with violence and so much is lost,” he said. “I exhort the authorities of the state and the entire population to maintain a high sense of responsibility with the aim of calming souls, promoting national reconciliation and safeguarding the democratic values rooted in American society,” Francis said. Dr. Chojnowski: But, are "democratic values," as opposed to the democratic  mechanical  process of choosing leaders, in accordance with the moral laws and the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Lefebvre, in his book Against the Heresies , clearly shows that they are not. When commenting, on pp. 184-185, on Pope Leo
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Jonathan Swan: The Cabinet Is Acting As If Trump ‘Is Not The President’ ...If Trump does not have the Nuclear Codes and if his Cabinet is not listening to him, who exactly is in charge? It seems as if the Old Enlightenment Constitution of 1787 is VERY MUCH on the Edge. What are Foreign Powers Doing to Take Advantage of the Situation?

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