In New England, where the old Theocratical oligarchy of the colonies had survived the Revolution and kept under its own waterlocks the new flood of trade, the conservatism of politics reinforced the conservatism of religion; and as if these two inquisitions were not enough to stifle the soul of man, the conservatism of business self-interest was superimposed.
"Emerson and Other Essays"
John Jay Chapman
They set up Theocratical governments from which all who did not belong to their own sect were excluded.
"A History of Freedom of Thought"
John Bagnell Bury
There is, perhaps, no nation so vitally Theocratical as the English; no nation in which the strong men have so consistently preferred the instrumental to the despotic attitude, the pleasures of the loyal to the pleasures of the royal position.
"Varied Types"
G. K. Chesterton