Is a lawfully-constituted civil society divinely-instituted?

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                          According to Catholic theologians, is every lawfully-constituted civil authority divinely-instituted like the Church (Mt. 16:18-19 )?

Pope Leo XIII, in his 1881 encyclical on the origin of civil power, *Diuturnum * §8, says that "political power […] comes from God"; cf. Romans 13:1-5 .

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Is a lawfully-constituted civil society divinely-instituted?

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