THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Kings was handed down to kings at birth by God.
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Kings were crowned by the Pope thus giving them the right to rule.
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The power of kings was decreasing since the Magna Carta.
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The power given to citizens as part of a democracy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -divine right of kings, in European history, a political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Glorious Revolution, John Locke published his Two Treatises of Government, in which he argued against the theory of the Divine Right of Kings and advocated the social contract as a basis for creating governments.
Detailed explanation-3: -Additionally, Enlightenment philosophers maintained the the right to rule should be derived from the consent of the governed, not from a supernatural entity. These beliefs were directly at odds with the divine right of kings since this ideology was dependent of faith.
Detailed explanation-4: -Enlightenment thinkers challenged the theory of divine right and the union of church and state.
Detailed explanation-5: -John Locke’s Views on Government Rejecting the divine right of kings, Locke said that societies form governments by mutual (and, in later generations, tacit) agreement.