“Wherever we have authority, we have the overshadowing of the cherubim, an endowment; and a calling to exercise authority and mercy and power in the name of God. Ezekiel makes the comparison at one point in Ezekiel 31:18 , between the trees of Eden, the Garden of Eden, and the Pharaoh and Egypt; so that we see wherever there is power, wherever there is authority, God says, “Here.”

— R. J. Rushdoony