to GIVE OR TAKE AWAY
CROWNS--to depose ungodly rulers, and to absolve their subjects from
their "horrible" OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE!

Again, in the July number for 1853, Brownson says:

"The Church is supreme, and you have no power except what you
hold in subordination to her, either in spirituals or in
temporals.... You no more have political than ecclesiastical
independence. The Church alone, under God, is independent, and
she defines both your powers and hers."

"They have heard it said from their youth up that the Church
has nothing to do with politics; that she has received no
mission in regard to the political order."

"In opposing the nonjuring bishops and priests, they believed
they were only asserting their national rights as men, or as
the State, and were merely resisting the unwarrantable
assumption of the spiritual power. If they had been distinctly
taught that the political authority is always subordinate to
the spiritual, and had grown up in the doctrine that the nation
is not competent to define, in relation to the ecclesiastical
power, its own rights--that the Church defines both its powers
and her own, and that though the nation may be, and ought to
be, independent in relation to other nations, it has, and can
have, no independence in the face of the Church, the kingdom of
God on earth: they would have seen at a glance that support of
the civil authority against the spiritual, no matter in what
manner, was the renunciation of their faith as Catholics, and
the actual or virtual assertion of the supremacy of the
temporal power."

In the same number, page 301, he says:

"She (the Church) has the right to judge who has, or has not,
according to the law of God, the right to reign: whether the
prince has, by his infidelity, his misdeeds, his tyranny and
oppression, forfeited his trust, and lost his right to the
allegiance of his subjects; and therefore whether they are
still held to their allegiance, or are released from it by the
law of God. If she have the right to judge, she has the right
to pronounce judgment, and order its execution: therefore to
pronounce sentence of deposition upon the prince who has
forfeited his right to reign, and to declare his subjects
absolved from their allegiance to him, and free to elect
themselv