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title: 'Alexander McLeod on Political Dissent'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-11-01
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-alexander-mcleod-on-political-dissent
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# Alexander McLeod on Political Dissent

“Presbyterian Covenanters perceiving immorality interwoven with the general and the states’ constitutions of government in America, have uniformly dissented from the civil establishments. Much as they loved liberty, they loved religion more. Anxious as they were for the good of the country, they were more anxious for the prosperity of Zion. Their opposition, however, has been the opposition of reason and of piety. The weapons of their warfare are arguments and prayers.” — [**Alexander McLeod**](/authors/alexander-mcleod), *Reformation Principles Exhibited* (1806), p. 134