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Categories: Deified people, Religion and politics, Articles with short description, Hereditary monarchy, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
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divine right  divine right of kings  Born to rule  Christian monarchism  Christian monarchy
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The doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes WordNet 3.0
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The doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects; rebellion is the worst of political crimes WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. Wikipedia
The doctrine that a monarch derives his or her power directly from God Wikipedia Disambiguation
Political and religious doctrine of the legitimacy of monarchs Wikidata
The Christian doctrine that monarchs have a God-given right to rule, that they are answerable only to God, and that rebellion is sinful. Wiktionary
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The doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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divine right, divine right of kings
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divine right of kings
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divine right of kings
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Born to rule, Christian monarchism, Christian monarchy, divine-right, divine mandate, Divine responsibility, Divine responsibility of kings, Divine responsibility of monarchs, Divine right monarchy, divine right of king, Divine right of Kings, Divine Right of Kings, divine right of monarchs, Divine right of rulers, Divine right theory, divine right to rule, Divine rule, DROK, God-given absolute sovereignty of kings, God-given right, God-given right of kings, God-given rights, God-given rights of kings, jure divino, the divine right

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