Divine Right of Kings
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a powerful divinity who appears in human shape · divine right of Kings · divine right of kings · kings accountable only to God · right divine · the divine right of kings · the divine right of sovereignty in kings, nobles and political spheres
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (English)
The later writings clothe the King with right divine.
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Ancient Law
The doctrine asserting kings' authority as divinely granted and absolute.
It is notorious, however, that as soon as the decay of the Feudal System had thrown the mediæval constitutions out of working order, and when the Reformation had discredited the authority of the Pope, the doctrine of the divine right of Kings rose immediately into an importance which had never before attended it.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The doctrine that the King is a divine being formed from the substance of the gods.
The later writings clothe the King with right divine.
The Rights of War and Peace
The doctrine that sovereigns, lacking any earthly superior, are accountable to God alone.
” Irenaeus has expressed this well, “ Kings are appointed by him at whose command men are created;
Now this admission by no means goes to establish the inference that kings are amenable to the people.
Aristotle says there are some kings, who have the same right, which the nation elsewhere possesses over persons and property.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The traditional monarchist doctrine that rulers hold sovereignty by divine sanction, compared unfavorably to the modern doctrine of spherical sovereignty.
The same as that of the divine right of sovereignty in kings, nobles and political spheres, from the beginning of history to this day.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A monarchical doctrine of legitimacy explicitly rejected as a basis for the American union.
And this principle—in which were involved the safety, interests and rights of each and every one of “the people,” who were to unite for the formation of the government—now furnished a bond of union, that was at once sufficient, legitimate, consistent, honorable, of universal application, and having more general power over the hearts and heads of all of them, than any other that could be found to hold them together.
Law in a Free State
The traditional doctrine of monarchical authority, reinterpreted by the narrator as surviving in fragmented form through the modern electorate.
The divine right of kings is just what it ever was,—the right of the strong to trample on the weak, the absolute despotism of the effective majority.