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The 52 pages that link to Divine right of kings, each with the reason it gives.

• Social contractCompared with: It locates political legitimacy in divine appointment, not popular agreement.

• Mandate of HeavenCompared with: Unlike many versions of divine right, the Mandate permits legitimacy to pass after misrule.

• Glorious RevolutionCompared with: It conflicted with the claim that Parliament could treat James as having abdicated.

• Popular sovereigntyCompared with: It grounds political legitimacy in divine appointment rather than the people’s consent.

• TheocracyCompared with: Unlike clerical rule, it legitimizes a monarch as God's chosen ruler.

• LegitimismCompared with: It offers a theological basis for monarchy, whereas legitimism centers on recognized dynastic title.

• Consent of the governedCompared with: It locates political legitimacy in divine sanction instead of the governed.

• Political authorityCompared with: It grounds political authority in sacred appointment rather than popular consent.

• Maya kingshipCompared with: It is a different theory of sacred rule, not a synonym for Maya royal duties.

• State of natureCompared with: It grounds political authority in divine appointment, not an agreement among individuals.

• Act of AbjurationCompared with: The Act instead justified rejecting a ruler who failed to uphold his obligations.

• Age of EnlightenmentCompared with: Enlightenment theories of consent challenged this defense of hereditary political authority.

• DevarajaCompared with: It is a familiar comparison, but differs in theology and ritual from the Khmer cult.

• Exclusion CrisisCompared with: Its claims conflicted with efforts to make Parliament alter the hereditary succession.

• Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsCompared with: Sieyès’s national sovereignty rejected monarchy as the ultimate source of legitimate authority.

• Geneva BibleCompared with: Some Geneva notes questioned the obedience demanded by royal authority.

• Henry IV of EnglandCompared with: Henry’s accession by deposition exposed tensions between sacred kingship and political reality.

• Robert BellarmineCompared with: Bellarmine’s account of political authority challenged claims that kings ruled independently of the people and pope.

• LeviathanCompared with: Hobbes grounds sovereignty in human authorization rather than a monarch's divine appointment.

• Theodore BezaCompared with: Beza’s defense of resistance to tyrannical rulers opposed unconditional royal authority.

• Two Treatises of GovernmentCompared with: Locke attacks this rival account of political legitimacy, especially in the First Treatise.

• Jean BodinCompared with: Bodin grounded sovereignty in political authority without making his theory identical to this doctrine.

• Execution of Charles I of EnglandCompared with: The execution challenged the doctrine by treating a king as accountable to a court acting for the people.

• Guarded Domains of IranCompared with: The phrase emphasized guardianship of territory rather than the divine source of royal power.