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covenant  

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  • Covenant, a political idea whose sources are deep in Western religion and rooted in biblical monotheism, defines political justice, shapes political behavior, and directs humans toward a civic synthesis of the two within a context of what theologians know as federal liberty. Covenant is one of the seminal political ideas of humanity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Covenant]

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