Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex was written in response to John Maxwell's "Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas" and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism raised Rutherford to merited eminence as a philosophical thinker.
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Rutherford Institute, a conservative civil-liberties organization named for Rutherford
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After the Restoration Samuel Rutherford's Lex, Rex, regarded by the Monarchy as a dangerously seditious tract, was burned at the Cross by the common hangman in 1661.