divine right of kings

How To Use divine right of kings In A Sentence

• To erode that bedrock is to subscribe, to a “divine right of kings” theory of governance, in which those who govern are absolved from adhering to the basic moral standards to which the governed are accountable. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
• the doctrine of the divine right of kings was enunciated by the Stuarts in Britain in the 16th century
• They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
• He would clearly have marched with the Diggers and the Levellers, almost as much the enemies of Cromwell's authoritarianism as of Charles' belief in the divine right of kings.
• James sought to reassert the divine right of kings, and Parliament combined against him.
• Louis believed strongly in the divine right of kings, saying that he was the sun and that his courtiers and France should revolve around him like planets.
• Why bother with the Divine Right of Kings when the guillotine is handy? Matthew Yglesias » System-Building
• Mr. Helstone, both about France and England; and about revolutions, and regicides, and restorations in general; and about the divine right of kings, which you often stickle for in your sermons, and the duty of non-resistance, and the sanity of war, and -- ' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
• Love will diehard, as died the idolatries of our forefathers, the geocentric theory of the universe, and the divine right of kings. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• This characterization is indubitably incisive, but it fails to take account of the fact that the expression droit divin des rois (divine right of kings) is, as Jean Mesnard has demonstrated, nowhere to be found in Bossuet's work. Louis XIV's Secret Wife