HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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colonial governors of the American colonies who claimed parliamentary supremacy
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emperors of China who claimed the mandate of heaven
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20th-century Nazis who believed in racial superiority
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Russian occupiers of Eastern Europe who based their authority on socialist doctrine
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Detailed explanation-1: -Divine right of kings was a way of justifying monarchies, particularly in Europe during the 16th to the 18th centuries. The idea is that the king is given his authority directly by God.
Detailed explanation-2: -The divine right of kings was a widespread and influential early modern doctrine of political authority, legitimacy, obligation, and sovereignty. It achieved its most sophisticated elaboration and exposition during the seventeenth century, and was especially important in the French and English political traditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The divine right of kings is the absolutist idea that a monarch’s authority to rule comes directly from God and that he or she is not subject to any earthly authority.
Detailed explanation-4: -The idea that a king was God’s chosen representative reached its greatest extent in the 1600s. Britain’s kings James I and Charles I believed strongly in the divine right of kings. These kings and others in Europe tried to control both the government and the church.