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the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes
the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century
How To Use divine right In A Sentence
- To erode that bedrock is to subscribe, to a “divine right of kings” theory of governance, in which those who govern are absolved from adhering to the basic moral standards to which the governed are accountable. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
- the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century
- They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
- We have no divine right to win these races. The Sun
- Some bicyclists apparently think they have a divine right to ride wherever they want.
- Ideas of Divine Right were, it is true, becoming increasingly difficult to justify in intellectual terms.
- He would clearly have marched with the Diggers and the Levellers, almost as much the enemies of Cromwell's authoritarianism as of Charles' belief in the divine right of kings.
- A degree does not give you a divine right to wealth.
- Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper.
- James sought to reassert the divine right of kings, and Parliament combined against him.
