The following address was delivered by Robert J. Breckinridge as a speech made during the October 1843 meeting of the Synod of Philadelphia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. This speech was subsequently published under the title, "Presbyterian Government, Not a Hierarchy, But a Commonwealth."
Sadly, Breckinridge's argument failed to persuade the Synod on this point. However, in published form, it has had an immense influence on the historic polity of the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS) and of its successor, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).
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Robert J. Breckinridge (1800-1871) was born to a prominent family in Kentucky and was a lawyer and a politician before his conversion in the winter of 1828-29, after which point he served as a Presbyterian ruling elder before attending Princeton Seminary and becoming a minister...
