| Also, didn't the divine right of kings fall out of favour some centuries ago? |
| It is an idea invented by politicians for politicians, a modern adaptation of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. |
| Between the divine right of kings and the territorial powers of priests, the legality of pre-modern states took shape. |
| Charles I was fighting for the divine right of kings, an absolutist faith which allowed neither compromise nor qualification. |
| Chinese political theory, for example, never accepted the divine right of kings, as did the Europeans. |
| High churchmen flourished under the later Stuarts because of their insistence on the divine right of kings. |
