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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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.

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