Election Bill 2107The concept of Divine Right is a really old political doctrine, in fact it is so old that it is hard to pin point when some one came up with it. Now these princes had no real justification to hold any form of control over mass territories and impose laws on a sizeable population, so they come up with the concept of Divine Right. With the passage of time other groups and other institutions within the state structure started gaining more influence and the old system of Divine Right didn’t seem acceptable anymore, as the influence of the monarch reduced, the Divine Right doctrine increasingly edged itself to the trash can of history. However, in the 21st Century when one would assume that there is no room for such a doctrine we still find it being followed. One could argue that the doctrine of Divine Right held true in these cases and perhaps the geo political situation of the Arab states is such that an unopposed strong man is best suited for them.

Source: Libya Today October 08, 2017 04:07 UTC