Excerpt from A History of Mediæval Political Theory in the West, Vol. 3: Political Theory From the Tenth Century to the Thirteenth
The first principle of the political theory of the Middle Ages is that the function of political authority is to maintain justice, 18l - this is the real meaning of the conception that the authority of the king is divine, 182 - the second principle is the supremacy of law as the embodiment of justice, 183 - the third is that the relation between ruler and people is founded upon the mutual obligation and agreement to maintain justice and law, 185.
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