Covenanters recognize the prerogative rights of King Jesus over the nations. We have existed in America before even the birth of the new nation in 1776. Our political manifesto is the 1761 Acts, Declaration, and Testimony..
Our political beliefs can be summed up with the following..
That any constitution of a nation must recognize Jehovah God as the creator of all things, That Christ is King of the nations, and that His laws are the supreme laws of the land.
Additionally a government or a elected magistrate must meet the biblical qualifications found in scriptures.. Here is a Systematic View of the Divine Office of Magistracy starting in Sequential Order of Foundation to Extent of Office to the Purpose of Office that I put together from the 1761 Acts, Declaration, and Testimony and Covenanter Alexander Shields, from his work entitled “From a Hind Let Loose.
1. Civil Government Instituted (Ex. 18)
2. Civil Government Set Up by Four Covenants (Ex. 18; Joshua 24:25; II Kings 11:17; Jeremiah 50:5; II Chronicles 15:15)
3. Qualifications of Magistrates Set (Ex. 18:21; Nehemiah 7:2; 2 Sam. 23:2-3; Deut. 13:1,17; Jer. 30:21)
4. Laws Given to National Israel were a sight (model) for all nations (Deuteronomy 4:6)
5. Those Laws are for ever (Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 11:1; Deuteronomy 29:29; Psalm 119:159-160)
6. Christ never abrogated these laws and even states emphatically twice that till heaven and earth pass away His laws will stand. (Matthew 5:17-19)
7. Those Laws are established by Him as King and is founded in equality and righteousness (Psalm 99:4)
8. There shall be ONE law for both Israel and the Stranger (Numbers 15:16,29; Lev 24:22; Ex. 12:49)
9. Gentiles Nations were judged for disobedience to that Laws (Genesis 18; Jonah)
10. Christ the Messiah is King Over All the Earth and over All the Nations (Psalm 47:2,3,7,8; Psalm 72:11)
11. Over all is His Dominion and He is King (Psalm 103:19)
12. Christ the Messiah has been given authority over all the judges, rulers and kings of the Earth and they must submit to Him and His laws. (Psalm 2; Psalm 76:12)
13. Believers are required to warn and testify God's laws before unlawful and wicked kings of nations (Psalm 119:46)
14. If those kings of the Earth do not qualify or disqualify themselves by performing wickedness then they are not lawful ordain magistrates and must be removed. (Judges 3:12-27; Judges 4:21&22-23; II Chronicles 15:16; I Kings 15:13; II Chronicles 21:10; Hos. 8:4; Luke 20:25; Romans 13)
15. Those kings that do not qualify or are disqualified are a abomination. (Proverbs 16:12)
16. Lawfully Ordained Magistrates are to be obeyed as Civil Ministers of God (Romans 13; Titus 3:1; I Peter 2)
All Authority and All power is given unto Christ in heaven and in earth. (Matthew 28) and we are to pray for an Earthly Manifestation of His Kingdom (Matthew 6:10)
Pretty much!
