WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God.

Detailed explanation-2: -Divine right is the notion that royalty is given divine sanction to rule. In the words of England’s King James I (r. 1603–1625): “The State of MONARCHIE is the supremest thing upon earth: For Kings are not only GOD’S Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon GOD’S throne, but even by GOD himself they are called GODS.”

Detailed explanation-3: -the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Absolute Monarchies in Europe Rulers in an absolute monarchy had total control over the country. Most believed that they had the divine right to rule, meaning that God created the monarchy they ruled over and they alone were God’s representative on earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Monarchy is a political system in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as head of state. It typically acts as a political-administrative organization and as a social group of nobility known as “court society.”

Detailed explanation-6: -The Doctrine of Divine and Absolute Right means that the King is the super power and only god can judge an unjust king. Thus the Monarch can’t be subjected to the will of commoners or even the Church.