ABSTRACT
AS religious ideas have at all times played a leading part in determining the course of political theories, so the Politics of Althusius grew in the soil of a definite religious view of the world. It bears the stamp of the Calvinistic spirit throughout. As such it forms a link in the chain of those monarchomachist writings (see Part I., Ch. I. Note 3) which were produced by the Huguenots, Puritans and German Reformers. It patently agrees with them in a number of points wherein the Catholic group of Monarchomachi diiïers altogether.
