"If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God."

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The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.

— Greg L. Bahnsen