“According to the medieval understanding,” wrote Carl Schmitt, “only God has a potestas constituens . . .” James Wilson, whose emphatic affirmation of the constituent authority of the people was quoted above, saw that authority itself as flowing from a moral sense instilled and regulated by “divine monitors within us.” “Human law,” he said, “must rest its authority, ultimately upon the authority of that law, which is divine.”Today, theocratic states continue to attribute the binding quality of all law, including constitutional law, to derivation from, or at least conformity with, God’s commandments.