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It is related to the ancient Catholic philosophies regarding monarchy, in which the monarch is God's vicegerent upon the earth and therefore subject to no inferior power. [ citation needed] Protestantism [ edit ] Antichristus, [26] a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder, of the pope using the temporal power to grant authority to a ruler contributing generously to the Catholic Church The French prelate Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet made a classic statement of the doctrine of divine right in a sermon preached before King Louis XIV: [24]

In England the doctrine of the divine right of kings was developed to its most extreme logical conclusions during the political controversies of the 17th century; its most famous exponent was Sir Robert Filmer. It was the main issue to be decided by the English Civil War, the Royalists holding that "all Christian kings, princes and governors" derive their authority direct from God, the Parliamentarians that this authority is the outcome of a contract, actual or implied, between sovereign and people. [23] Sacred kings - the occupant of the monarchy gains religious significance or has support from a deity James's reference to "God's lieutenants" is apparently a reference to the text in Romans 13 where Paul refers to "God's ministers". John Bradford (1853). The writings of John Bradford Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Whatever the increase in the crime rate here, it still has a long way to go to catch up with most places in the US but we only hear about how New York is now safer than London. Be glad that you live in one of the most beautiful lands in the world, and I mean the whole of the British Isles. You can keep the supposed "paradise" beaches, particularly those of the far east where you take your life in your hands walking across one on a sunny afternoon far more than you would walking through a run down estate on the darkest night. I don't need to prove it, it's a historically documented fact, however, because I can, here you go:

For Erasmus of Rotterdam it was the consent of the people which gives and takes away "the purple", [15] :95 not an unchangeable divine mandate. Roman Catholic jurisprudence, the monarch is always subject to natural and divine law, which are regarded as superior to the monarch. [16] In the sixteenth century, both Catholic and Protestant political thinkers alike challenged the idea of a monarch's "divine right". Many of the genetic clusters we see in the west and north are similar to the tribal groupings and kingdoms around, and just after, the time of the Saxon invasion, suggesting these kingdoms maintained a regional identity for many years," he told BBC News. James, after becoming James I of England, also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.In the Middle Ages, the idea that God had granted certain earthly powers to the monarch, just as he had given spiritual authority and power to the church, especially to the Pope, was already a well-known concept long before later writers coined the term "divine right of kings" and employed it as a theory in political science. Historically, many notions of rights have been authoritarian and hierarchical, with different people granted different rights and some having more rights than others. For instance, the right of a father to receive respect from his son did not indicate a right for the son to receive a return from that respect. Analogously, the divine right of kings, which permitted absolute power over subjects, provided few rights for the subjects themselves. [2] The state of monarchy 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. There be three principal [comparisons] that illustrate the state of monarchy: one taken out of the word of God, and the two other out of the grounds of policy and philosophy. In the Scriptures, kings are called gods, and so their power after a certain relation compared to the Divine power. Kings are also compared to fathers of families; for a king is true parens patriae [parent of the country], the politic father of his people. And lastly, kings are compared to the head of this microcosm of the body of man. [21] Kloss, Waldemar (1907). "Erasmus's Place in the History of Philosophy". The Monist. 17 (1): 84–101. doi: 10.5840/monist190717138. ISSN 0026-9662. JSTOR 27900019. that is, the commandment: "Honor your father ..." etc.,... but to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his goodwill ..."