the concept that the right to rule derives from God and thatkings are answerable for their actions to God alone
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The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism.
Divine Right (The principle that Kings were chosen by God) was used to support the concept of absolutism in which the power of the Monarch was unrestrained by either the noble or common classes. King Charles I of England was a divine right monarch who attempted to rule without the consent of parliament.
"Might Makes Right".
Jean Bodin, a French political philosopher, was a strong prominent of the divine right of kings. Bodin lived from 1530 to 1596.
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Divine Right or Theocracy both have the idea that the right to rule is given by god.