Theocracy

A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God. La religion, qui, dans I'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisme, pour regner par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tente de regner seule. C'est ce qu'elle a/ppelait le regne de Dieu, la theocratie. Beligion, which in former times frequently associated itself with despotism, to reign by its power or under its shadow, has sometimes attempted to reign alone; and this she has called the "reign of God," — ^theocracy. Matter, de I'lnfluence des Moeurs sur les Lois, et de I'lnfluence des Lois sur les Moeurs, 189.