Lex, Rex is a book by the Scottish Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford. The book, written in English, was published in 1644 with the subtitle "The Law and the Prince". Published in response to Bishop John Maxwell 's "Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas", it was intended to be a comprehensive defence of the Scottish Presbyterian ideal in politics.

2008年1月21日 · Lex, rex: the law and the prince, a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people ... Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

2016年4月13日 · 这里有两个词:Lex,是法律的意思; Rex,即王的意思。 Lex和Rex最初排的次序是Rex在先,Lex在后,就是“王在法前”,国王不受法律的规制。 经过英国大宪章的制定者以及后来库克 (Edward Coke)的设计、改革、推广之后变成了 Lex在先,Rex在后，即把这两个词的顺序给颠倒一下,法在前,王在后'这就是法治 (Rule ofLaw)的原意。 （《人大法律评论》2014年卷第2辑） 单就词源来说，於先生的考证可能是正确的。 但从法律思想史来看，“王在法下”的理念绝不始于英国 …

Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex, or The Law and the Prince (1644) was written in response to John Maxwell's Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism. It raised Rutherford to eminence as a philosophical thinker.

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About this time, he wrote his celebrated work entitled Lex Rex, in answer to a treatise by John Maxwell, the excommunicated Bishop of Ross, entitled “Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas, or the sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, wherein soveraigntie is, by Holy Scripture, reverend antiquitie, and sound reason asserted,” 4to., Oxford ...

His work, Lex, Rex, was considered by the government as " inveighing against monarchie and laying ground for rebellion;" and ordered to be burned by the hand of the

2012年12月28日 · Originally published in 1644 by Scottish Presbyterian Minister Reverend Samuel Rutherford, this is a copy of the 1843 printing. Lex, Rex defends the rule of law and the lawfulness of defensive wars and advocates limited government and constitutionalism in politics. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

2015年7月15日 · It is his book Lex Rex. The Latin title simply means "the law is king." This was contrary to the opposite Rex Lex, "the king is law." In this book, Rutherford argues for constitutionalism, meaning that the government should not be a monarchy or an oligarchy or a dictatorship, in which the nation is ruled by an individual or an elite few.

2020年8月17日 · The title Lex Rex is Latin for “Law is King”. Divine right theorists had said that the King was the law, but Rutherford reverses this and shows that natural law is above the king, and thus there are times when citizens can and must obey God rather than man.