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
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
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
We search the signatures of the National Covenant in vain for the name of Alexander Brodie, and the absence of his name from that noble roll is already an ill-omen for his future life.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Whyte, Alexander
In 1557 was formed the powerful assembly of Protestant clergy and laymen who took the title of "the Congregation of the Lord", and signed the National Covenant which aimed at the abolition of Roman Catholicism.
From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.
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