The Divine Right Of Kings: United States Government

Bowin Lam
Dr. Jason Dew
ENGL 1101
18 July 2013
The Divine Right of Kings The American government uses true absolutism, which is a major aspect of The Divine Right of Kings, due to the fact on how they use wiretapping, monitoring phone conversations and general surveillance without consent. The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. A monarchy is a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or normally embodied in a single individual, the monarch. The Homily of 1547 expressed the whole doctrine of divine right in Louis XIV’s rule over France or Charles
Absolutism is the political doctrine and practice of unlimited, centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator. The essence of an absolutist system is that the ruling powers is not subject to regularized challenge or check by any other agency, be it judicial, legislative, religious, economic, or electoral. When Louis XIV was king he proclaimed, “I am the state” (Encyclopedia Britannica). This statement alone made by Louis XIV showed familiar assertion of absolutism. It has existed in various forms in all parts of the world, including in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. The most studied form of absolutism would be absolute monarchy. Absolute monarchy originated in early modern Europe and was based on the strong individual leaders of the new nation-states that were created at the breakup of medieval order. The most common defense of monarchical absolutism is known as The Divine Right of
Of course it is. This is due to all the recent events that are running all over the news. There is the Edward Joseph Snowden case that is happening right now. His case is very special because it shows how the government is using true absolutism. Joseph Snowden was a former technical contractor for the United States National Security Agency, the NSA, and a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, who leaked details of several top-secret U.S. and British governments’ mass surveillance programs to the press. This case right here shows how the Patriot Act is being abused. Of course people cannot live without technology, but this is a prime example of something that is supposed to be good backfiring back to the American government. The Divine Right of Kings is very much in full effect as of today, because people all around the world want true power; it is human nature to always want more. Nobody wants to be on the bottom of the totem