The Divine Right of Kings drew extensively from key biblical passages interpreted as supporting royal authority directly from God. Romans 13:1-2 became particularly influential: ...

The Divine Right of Kings is a very old concept, in fact, thousands of years old. It is, in a nutshell, “a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism, asserting that a monarch is subject to ...

In his Inaugural Address, he claimed that when a gunman opened fire on him last summer, he “was saved by God to make America great again,” an echo of the divine right of kings.

What if the divine right of kings enabled the monarch to write any law, prosecute any person and impose any punishment he wished for real or fanciful or even imagined crimes?

By Rob Okun A would-be king wants a coronation on June 14, a date already laden with meaning: Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, and, yes, Donald J. Trump’s 79th ...

What if the divine right of kings enabled the monarch to write any law, prosecute any person and impose any punishment he wished for real or fanciful or even imagined crimes?

That’s the ethos animating No Kings Day of Defiance—a clear-eyed recognition that 250 years ago, our ancestors rejected a mad king. And today, we must reject another.

In pre-revolutionary America, the ruling class governed through the “divine right of kings,” the belief that the King of England was an agent of God, not to be questioned.

Peoples were governed by the divine right of kings, by right of birth, or by the sword and blood," he said. "Democracy is a very recent development." More: Historian who predicted 9 of the last 10 ...

"And Trump, of course, doesn't care anything about that because he is, in his mind apparently, within the status of the divine right of kings. Putting his hand on a Bible is beneath him." ...

In Two Treatises of Government (1689), provided extensive biblical and philosophical critique against divine-right absolutism. Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) Early-16th century ...