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>[1] Small caveat on this in that royal families held something akin to the mandate of heaven by virtue of their heredity. They pretended that they did have su
by fuzztester 2y ago
>[1] Small caveat on this in that royal families held something akin to the mandate of heaven by virtue of their heredity.
They pretended that they did have such a divine right:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
Events like the French Revolution proved them wrong:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
- ffgjgf1 2y ago> Events like the French Revolution proved them wrong: To be fair nobody took it that seriously before either. Cities, regions, nobles etc. were constantly trying to challenge the king and his/her authority and protect/expand their rights and privileges. It’s just that before the French Revolution they usually just wanted to extract additional privileges from the monarch or limit his powers (or in the worst case replace). The same thing happened in the French Regime before it got slightly out of hand.. e.g. even Louis XIV constantly had to fight the courts to force through his new laws (and was almost deposed in quasi-revolution(similar to the English civil war just without the religious element) at the beginning of his reign)
- fuzztester 2y ago>To be fair nobody took it that seriously before either. Cities, regions, nobles etc. were constantly trying to challenge the king and his/her authority and protect/expand their rights and privileges. Okay. Also, similarly, the Magna Carta in England. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta