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The Scots textbooks of the divine right of kings were written in 1597–1598 by James VI of Scotland. His Basilikon Doron , a manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son Henry Frederick that a king "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from God a burden of government, whereof he must be ...
James saw the divine right of kings as an extension of the apostolic succession, as both not being subjected by humanly laws. James VI had this work published in 1598 in Edinburgh in the form of a small octavo pamphlet. It is considered remarkable for setting out the doctrine of the divine right of kings in Scotland, for the first time.
This was a fundamental change; if the Parliament of Scotland could decide James had "FOREFAULTED" (forfeited) his throne, Scotland's monarchs derived legitimacy from the "sovereign people of Scotland's" Convention of the Estates of Scotland (later made a Parliament of Scotland), not God, ending in Scotland the principle of divine right of kings.
In 1597–1598, James wrote two works, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies and Basilikon Doron (Royal Gift), in which he established an ideological base for monarchy. In the Trew Law, he sets out the divine right of kings, explaining that for Biblical reasons kings are higher beings than other men, though "the highest bench is the sliddriest to sit upon". [1]
The divine right of kings and the "accountability of Kings to God alone", [2] The inalienable hereditary right of succession. [2] The "unequivocal scriptural injunction of non-resistance and passive obedience", [2] That James II had been illegally deprived of his throne, [2] therefore the House of Stuart should be restored to the throne.
When he became the King of both England and Scotland, James sought to keep the Church of England strictly under his monarchical rule and the power of episcopacy, previously established under Elizabeth. King James held strong convictions on the Divine right of kings, and even wrote a book on the subject.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, said that the former president’s time in office did not bestow on him ‘the divine right of kings’ to evade criminal accountability.
The Scottish Succession Act of August 1681 confirmed the divine right of kings, the rights of the natural heir 'regardless of religion,' the duty of all to swear allegiance to that king and the independence of the Scottish Crown.