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...

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

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...

only published in 1680 after the Restoration. The book defends the divine right of kings on the basis that all modern states' authority derived from the...

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...

Absolute monarchy Sovereignty Thomas Hobbes (17th century theorist) Divine right of kings West, Norman R. "French Absolutism". Suffolk County Community College...

"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...

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...