They invoked regicide, revolt, and treason, to effect an impossible cure.
The political theory of the Jesuits was deduced from their fundamental principle of obedience to the Church.

They maintained that the ecclesiastical is _jure divino_ superior to the secular power.

The Pope through God's commission and appointment sways the Church; the Church takes rank above the State, as the soul above the body.

Consequently, the first allegiance of a Christian nation, together with its secular rulers, belongs of right to the Supreme Pontiff.

The people is the real sovereign; and kings are delegates from the people, with authority which they can only justly exercise so long as they remain in obedience to Rome.