The Duodecimo · 1922 · restored 2025

The Divine Right of Democracy

Clarence True Wilson — Clarence True Wilson was 'America's Number One Dry' — a Methodist bishop who ranked alongside Wayne Wheeler and Bishop James Cannon as a driving force behind the Eighteenth Amendment.

Clarence True Wilson was 'America's Number One Dry' — a Methodist bishop who ranked alongside Wayne Wheeler and Bishop James Cannon as a driving force behind the Eighteenth Amendment. This book is his attempt to provide a philosophical and theological foundation for the prohibition movement, arguing that democratic self-governance carries with it a divine obligation to moral reform.

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Wilson, Clarence True. The Divine Right of Democracy (1922). Bulkington Books, 2025.