HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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Many European absolute monarchs justified their right to rule based on
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Supreme Law
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Divine Right
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Papal authority (Pope’s permission)
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Their popularity
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Explanation:
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: -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.”
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