10 Things You Should Know about the Election

The following is reblogged from a Christian source.

This is a guest post by Hunter Baker, author of Political Thought: A Student’s Guide. This post is part of our 10 Things You Should Know blog series.

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1. The Bible tells us to obey the governing authorities (Romans 13).

But that doesn’t mean we should merely remain passive before the government. Christians in the United States live in a democratic republic. Citizens actually possess a portion of the state’s sovereignty within themselves. To some extent, we are the governing authorities in the sense that we vote on representatives and sometimes directly on policies.