In this important contribution, Nathaniel Bates traces the complicated and sometimes contradictory ways movements evolve through their adherents in history. Here he traces Calvinism and the way democracy developed in the English world to emphasize “Lex Rex,” i.e., that the law is king. Because history is complicated, contingent and without determinism, he finds originalism wanting and recommends that we should rather look to the future.

Calvinism and Democracy in the English World