HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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inherited by birth right to rule
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being voted into the position of king or queen
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taking the throne by force
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the belief a monarch has been given the right to rule by God
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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: -: the right that is supposedly given to a king or queen by God to rule a country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The divine right of kings is a concept that has long been used as justification for monarchal absolutism. It posits that a king is divinely appointed by God and is accountable to God alone, giving him absolute or near-absolute power over his people.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to this theory, the absolute powers of the king were given by God, thus the king ruled by a Divine Right. This started a conflict of power between the king and the parliament.