The District of Columbia Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals could prove to be one of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s ...

From the execution of Louis XVI to the defeat of Napoleon III, the falls of the monarchy in France changed the face of the ...

With the Reformation, these peculiarly Western claims on sovereignty became more urgent and expansive, producing both Catholic and Protestant justifications for the “Divine Right of Kings ...

Adom Olam, the Ruler of the universe, recognized as constitutional monarch of all Jews, since with a shofar we are able to ...

This tradition is reflected in the phrase 'the divine right of kings', meaning that the ruler's actions carry with them God's support. While this seems repellent to modern thinking, it was ...

Opinion writer Jack Shaw critiques how success has been reduced to the accumulation of wealth and proposes the possibility of ...

John Neville Figgis was born on 2 February 1866, at Brighton in Sussex, even then something of a place of resort and retirement for the upper middle classes. His father, the Reverend John Benjamin ...

The 19th century English historian John Neville Figgis, in his treatise The Divine Right of Kings justified James by saying ...

From a touching memoir about family to a fantasy-inspired bookstore, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette shares a ...

These men were heroes in Douglass’ telling – brave souls who had indeed risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to challenge the notion of the divine right of kings and the military might of ...

A rung above idolatrous religions are Christianity and Islam, which are closer to the light of God. They, too, have a major ...