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It is not a denial of the divine right of kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men.
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “It is not a denial of the divine right of kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all…”
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Coolidge argues that democracy asserts the divine rights of all men alongside the traditional divine right of kings.
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