Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. It...

Look up divine right in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Divine Right may refer to: The Divine right of kings, the doctrine that a monarch derives his...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Divine Right of Kings "The Divine Right of Kings" is attributed to Edgar Allan Poe, though not fully...

"Divine Right of Kings". BBC. 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2009-12-21. [...] the idea that a king was sacred, appointed by God and above the judgment of earthly...

theorist who defended the divine right of kings. His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numerous Whig attempts...

Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings is a 1680 book by the English philosopher Robert Filmer, defending the divine right of kings on the basis that all modern...

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principle of the divine right of kings. The goal of the Roundheads was to give to Parliament the supreme control over executive administration of the country/kingdom...

is legitimacy: by what right does a government exercise authority? Claims of legitimacy might refer to the divine right of kings, or to a social contract...

most widespread justification of the state was the emerging idea of the divine right of kings, which stated that kings derived their authority from God...

resonance within the concept of the divine right of kings, whereby monarchs were presumed by decision of God to have a divinely anointed authority to rule...

claim some form of divine mandate, suggesting that their rule is in accordance with the will of God. The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced...

Thomas Aquinas. During the Age of Enlightenment, the concept of natural laws was used to challenge the divine right of kings, and became an alternative justification...

the divine right of kings, particularly in the kingdoms of England and France. The French Revolution marked a significant shift in the perception of dictatorship...

wheel (of dharma)". The Indian concept of chakravarti later evolved[citation needed] into the concept of devaraja – the divine right of kings – which...

Hobbes and Jean Bodin undermined the doctrine of the divine right of kings by arguing that the power of kings should be justified by reference to the people...

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monarchs rule in accordance of some sort of contract with their people. James saw the divine right of kings as an extension of the apostolic succession,...

against the divine right of kings. Both James I and his son Charles I attempted to suppress the discussion of Magna Carta. The political myth of Magna Carta...

of unpopular favourites established the foundations of the English Civil War. James bequeathed his son Charles a fatal belief in the divine right of kings...

derived their claim from Christianisation and the divine right of kings, partly influenced by the notion of sacral kingship inherited from Germanic antiquity...

used in challenging the theory of the divine right of kings, and became an alternative justification for the establishment of a social contract, positive...

temporal power and was replaced by the divine right of kings. In 1648, the powers of Europe signed the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the religious...

specific depiction of Christ Caesaropapism, the idea of combining the power of secular government with the religious power Divine right of kings God king, a...

Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with...

needed] The concept of aristocracy according to Plato has an ideal state ruled by the philosopher king. Plato describes "philosopher kings" as "those who love...

theory of consent is historically contrasted to the divine right of kings and had often been invoked against the legitimacy of colonialism. Article 21 of the...

Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hood, Francis Campbell. The divine politics of Thomas Hobbes...

empire was also an absolute monarchy. Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy...

political theory in favor of a natural system based on nature in a particular given system. The theory of the divine right of kings became a passing fancy...