National Covenant
Americannoun
noun
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The National Covenant, which demanded radical changes in how Scotland was governed, was signed in the graveyard in February 1638.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2020
Under the National Covenant, an unwritten agreement reached at the time, the country's President is always a Maronite, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'ite Muslim.
From Time Magazine Archive
As France was quitting the area in 1943, an unwritten but carefully wrought National Covenant was adopted by Lebanese leaders in an effort to accommodate the new country's volatile religious mix of Christians and Moslems.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1638 the National Covenant against "papistry" was signed by all classes in Scotland.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
Thereupon you and we took the National Covenant with joint consent, to endeavour the freedom, peace, and safety of the people of England.
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry
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