| Between the divine right of kings and the territorial powers of priests, the legality of pre-modern states took shape. |
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| Chinese political theory, for example, never accepted the divine right of kings, as did the Europeans. |
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| Charles I was fighting for the divine right of kings, an absolutist faith which allowed neither compromise nor qualification. |
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| Also, didn't the divine right of kings fall out of favour some centuries ago? |
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| Such demands clearly challenged Charles' belief in the divine right of kings to govern as they saw fit. |
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| Here's David Hume trying to find a moral theory for equality in world that only knew the divine right of kings. |
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| Despite enduring a sickly childhood Charles matured into a strong-willed Stuart monarch and an advocate of the divine right of kings. |
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| This absolute pardon power comes from the divine right of kings, that kings can do no wrong. |
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| The divine right of kings was a short-lived political theory, swept under by rival theories in early modern times. |
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| That sure smacked of the divine right of kings and condemnation of the rebels of the Puritan revolution. |
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| At one time the majority of people believed in the divine right of kings, slavery, and human sacrifice to propitiate the gods. |
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| Enthusiasm for the divine right of kings dovetailed neatly with other theories stressing the sacred nature of monarchy. |
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| She took a high view of her royal prerogative, and held as robust a belief in the divine right of kings as her father and successor. |
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| It is an idea invented by politicians for politicians, a modern adaptation of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. |
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| High churchmen flourished under the later Stuarts because of their insistence on the divine right of kings. |
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| It took the French Revolution to kill off the belief in the divine right of kings. |
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| It is a democracy which shares many of our values and had a tradition of political tolerance when we still believed in the divine right of kings. |
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| However, over time the concept has evolved from the divine right of kings to the limited form of sovereignty that we see today. |
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| With this emphasis upon passive obedience emerged the theory of the divine right of kings. |
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| The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. |
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| 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. |
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| Its powers came from what was originally considered to be the divine right of kings, which gave the monarch almost absolute power to rule as he or she thought fit. |
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| Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England. |
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| Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. |
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| The divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandate is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. |
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| Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy. |
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| It replaced the ancient kingdom of France, ruled by the divine right of kings. |
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| There was an element of the divine right of kings about the appointment. |
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| This, first in Britain then in Canada by way of the grant in 1848 of responsible government-in effect, colonial self-government-had only recently been implemented to replace of the age-old rule of the divine right of kings. |
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| With his doctrine that sovereignty is conferred by divine law, Bodin predefined the scope of the divine right of kings. |
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| The new power of the monarch was given a basis by the notion of the divine right of kings to rule over their subjects. |
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| While the divine right of kings granted unconditional legitimacy, the Mandate of Heaven was dependent on the behaviour of the ruler, the Son of Heaven. |
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| As the leader of a neofeudal Prussian political party, he campaigned for the divine right of kings, the power of the nobility, and episcopal polity for the church. |
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| During the brief period of absolute monarchies in Europe, the divine right of kings was an important competing justification for the exercise of sovereignty. |
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| And the Divine Right of Kings is generally not considered to be a uniquely dispositive reason for the monarchial system. |
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| These sermons were used to promulgate the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. |
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| Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings, the theory that the King was crowned by God and accountable to him alone. |
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| Charles shared his father's belief in the Divine Right of Kings, and his assertion of this led to a serious breach between the Crown and the English Parliament. |
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