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OpenStudy (anonymous):

King James I had many issues with Parliament, one being that he believed in the "divine right of kings". What is the divine right of kings?

OpenStudy (mvpriest6):

the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes. It was claimed in Britain by the earlier Stuarts and is also associated with the absolutism of Louis XIV of France.

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