I am a dual citizen (US and Israel). In the case of the former, I see it as being based on the sheva mitzvot (although the left is trying to replace them with a secular liberalism that is essentially pagan). The Anglo-American philosophers of the 17-19th centuries were lovers of Tanach who saw it as the blueprint for the ideal state. The English legal philosopher John Selden even learned with Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael. In the case of the latter, it is the precursor to the complete geula. Moreover, we are enjoined to pray for the government as the protector from mob rule.
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