(April 14, 2022 at 5:54 am)Interaktive Wrote:(April 14, 2022 at 5:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, 'rhetorical'.
Boru
Outwardly beautiful, but meaningless eloquence.
Yup. The mention of God in the foundational documents is most often done to appease the Great Unwashed. While there are some cases where those crafting the documents use such rhetoric as a direct indicator of their intent to create a theocracy (you’re most likely to find this in the Muslim world), such instances are relatively few and far between.
On the other hand, the exclusion of God from a constitution is no guarantee that a theocracy won’t arise in a particular country.
Boru
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