Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plotcast.

Before we get started, I wanted to make sure you knew that Douglas Wilson has written a book for kids called Andrew in the Firedreg.

The boy Andrew can't remember who or where he is, but he does know that he has a task to do, and it's very important

he completes it exactly the way he was instructed, no matter who or what tells him otherwise.

At every step of his quest, Andrew is faced with a choice.

Will he do what he knows he must or will he take a shortcut?

He will meet new friends, bitter enemies, and some who are a little bit of both

as he discovers his story is at once stranger and more magical than he thought.

You can find Douglas Wilson's Andrew in the Fire Drake at cannon press.com.

You can also listen to it exclusively on the cannon app. Yes God, God, God, don't never turn.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 191.

I'm Douglas Wilson. Good to have you here. This is the

Plodcast 191. So I want to talk a little bit about how

written constitutions work, how written constitutions work.

If we were to, a lot of Christians are snarled up on the question of Romans 13 because they assume quietly that the supreme authority in any system of

governance would be the chief executive.

So this is devolving back to the days of monarchy and more than that to sort of a divine right of king's

monarchy where the king was the unquestioned authority.

It's ultimately pagan, where you believe that the instantiation of the will of God on earth is found in the king.

Well, the problem with that is in our system of government, in American civics, the supreme law of the land is the Constitution.

The supreme law of the land is the Constitution.

Now someone's going to say yes, but someone's got to interpret the Constitution, someone's got to apply it, right?

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