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…by the three orders, when they hold their primary diets,) So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannize and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, Chapter 20 — Of civil government
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