interposition

“Of course I know interposition is invalid,” he admitted.

Mack told NPR in 2019 that sheriffs "have the responsibility to interpose – it's the 'doctrine of interposition' – whenever anybody is trying to diminish or violate the individual rights of our counties."

However, much of what is currently being taught today about using interposition to undermine the legitimacy of government is sourced in reconstructionism.

The words of the proclamation to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation” resonate anew.

In his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863 during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln urged citizens to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it.”