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Helpful aside: "Province", not "providence". The former is an administrative division of a larger polity; the latter is the grace of God, which could lead to so
by aaronem 13y ago
Helpful aside: "Province", not "providence". The former is an administrative division of a larger polity; the latter is the grace of God, which could lead to some confusion when mentioned in this context.
- jerf 13y agoOops. No idea where that came from; I know better. Perhaps the backwards state of SomethingElse believes not only in the divine right of Kings, but the divine right of Dukes and perhaps even other nobility as well...
- aaronem 13y agoWell, if you assume both a peerage and a divine-right monarchy, then the divine right of peers seems more or less implicit, since they're created as such by the Crown, and a monarch anointed and guided by God would not fail to recognize who among her subjects is worthy of elevation. Subordination doesn't seem hard to handle in such a system; a duke's word, for example, would be God-given law save where it happened to conflict with the dictates of the Queen, an earl's likewise in relation to a duke, and on down the line, and presumably such conflicts could be handled by any noble of higher rank than the one found to be in conflict -- an earl, for example, might censure an unruly baron. …come to think about it, given a few global string replacements, haven't we just more or less reinvented both the British peerage and the Roman Catholic Church?