• Archer@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That was probably true about the divine right of kings, hundreds of years ago. Things change

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      24 hours ago

      It changed because private citizens were able to join together and accumulate enough wealth to match the private treasuries of a local monarch and fund private armies to act as revolutionary elements that threatened their local monarch with overwhelmingly disproportionate strength and forced them to capitulate.