Thus the claims of Paul and subsequent tsars to a divine right to rule were based on a very questionable past. |
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Also, didn't the divine right of kings fall out of favour some centuries ago? |
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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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Charles I was fighting for the divine right of kings, an absolutist faith which allowed neither compromise nor qualification. |
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Our nation was founded on a heroic act of disobedience to a king who was presumed to rule by divine right. |
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Chinese political theory, for example, never accepted the divine right of kings, as did the Europeans. |
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Between the divine right of kings and the territorial powers of priests, the legality of pre-modern states took shape. |
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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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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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The Regent oligarchs, holding office for life, were like kings by divine right, they too answered to no earthly power. |
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Perhaps some of the players fell into the trap that somehow Manchester United had a divine right to continue winning things. |
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The Royalists supported the king, Charles I, who believed that he ruled by the divine right of God, and answered to no one. |
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The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch. |
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Returning to almsgiving considered as a divine right on the rich for the poor. |
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The framers of the Constitution were veterans of a revolution against a king whose divine right to rule the colonies was sanctioned by the official church of England. |
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The people are to exercise this divine right in the manner specified in the following articles. |
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No, Mr Pronk, huge companies do not have the authority of divine right for their decisions. |
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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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No one can deprive man of this divine right, nor subordinate it to the vested interests of a particular individual or group. |
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This supremacy, which he claimed by divine right, demanded sure dominion over both emperors and kings. |
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The key point is that there is no divine right to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. |
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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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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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It is more than three hundred years since the Glorious Revolution was to have freed us from the tyranny of an absolute monarchy ruling by divine right. |
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Mr. Carrefour will not be ruined by your act, but do not risk to steal yourself even by thinking that what you take do not belong to you by a divine right and has been always intended for you. |
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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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She could not have been killed had she not first been deconsecrated, and she had unwittingly colluded in her own deconsecration by asserting her divine right to the one privilege no deified being can exercise with impunity. |
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On the one hand, nobody has the right to deprive the person who has the use of land of its possession, for this would violate a divine right, and even the king cannot do that. |
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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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The ruling Bushongo chief is king by divine right. |
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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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Absolutism and divine right were under attack. |
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I am among those who believe-and I will give my reasons later-that we should consider opening up the institution of marriage because marriage is not a divine right. |
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But FDR clubs must not expect handouts, they have no divine right to have the union's sugar spoon inserted into their mouths. |
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Mariana thus challenged divine right theories by stating in certain circumstances, tyrannicide could be justified. |
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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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Throughout much of European history, the divine right of kings was the theological justification for absolute monarchy. |
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All three were united in opposing Sir Robert Filmer's defence of divine right and absolute monarchy. |
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A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, Charles I, King of England and Scotland, persecuted religious dissenters. |
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It replaced the ancient kingdom of France, ruled by the divine right of kings. |
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Tlatocayotl, or the principle of rulership, established that this divine right was inherited by descent. |
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Finally, Calvin taught that if rulers rise up against God they lose their divine right and must be deposed. |
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As a result, the Tudor Kings and Queens are considered the most powerful monarchs in English history and the closest England ever had to an absolute monarch ruling by divine right. |
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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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Rulers, be they local teteuctin or tlatoani, or central Huetlatoani, were seen as representatives of the gods and therefore ruled by divine right. |
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Many European monarchs, such as those of Russia, claimed supreme autocratic power by divine right, and that their subjects had no rights to limit their power. |
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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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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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