The Impact Of The Covenant Of Christianity On American Federal Constitution

The covenant is a political philosophy conception rather than a divinity one. It has entered the modern era in a particular way and gradually got consummate. Its religion content has been progressively covered by the political factors during the course and the covenant has finally performed in the Constitution. The Constitution is from the Hebraic bible and also a significant and unique religion thought in Christianity. The four kinds of covenant in bible draw the outline of the process of temporalization from the covenant to the contract. Instead of disappearing through the percolation of modern thoughts, the covenant of Christianity has merged, as a classic traditional thought, with the modern political life in a unique way with its powerful vitality. The covenant thought is consistent with the federal constitutional logic. Some constitutional conceptions, such as personal equality, sacred rights, restricted government, are coincidentally covered by the covenant of Christianity, which has endowed these three essentials with holy background and moral foundation. Wherefore, the covenant of Christianity has provided the federal Constitution with one of the spirit support and value resource.The covenant thought of Christianity has shaped the American constitutional civilization and guided the conformation of American political system. The covenant has been transformed from the believe into the practical constitutional system of federalism in Puritans'two generations, which has laid the solid foundation of thoughts and system. The development of federal constitutional system can be defined as a process from covenant to constitution. The covenant is prior to the Constitution which is prior to the constitutional system. As the Constitution conceal the covenant thought which is taken for the advanced law, once dose the Constitution lose the background of the advanced law of the covenant, it would definitely lose the holiness. The covenant has provided the specific system model and abstract thought support for the formation of federal constitutional order and pushed it to be consummate.