“All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and the reason of things, obliged to govern their respective societies according to the laws of the supreme Legislator.”

About Roger Sherman

Politician • American

Roger Sherman was an early American statesman, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to have signed all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Continental Association, the...