Elitist Authority

"Elitist authority thus rules out both God and most men. It reserves authority to humanistic intellectuals who will not allow the validity of a Biblical judgment. The Bible, setting forth God’s law-word, enables every man to assess other men, himself, institutions, and history. The Ten Commandments set forth the foundations of man’s necessary way of life towards God and man. The law of God enables every man to assess authority and to exercise authority. When the law of God is denied standing, then only the elitist judgments of elitist man can prevail. The vast majority of men are then excluded from authority and denied any valid ground for assessing authority. Totalitarianism is then only a question of time."

(excerpted from Sovereignty, by RJ Rushdoony, p.50)