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Divine Rights Theory: The Divine Right Theory Of Government

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No matter where we come from or what religion we base our beliefs on, we are all just regular people run by a higher authority that makes up a system called government. Government has been a key aspect for all human beings that lived in the past or are currently living in the present. We carry on day to day but one thing we never realize is that the government is taped into our lives and is not going nowhere for a long time. Government is the process in which a group of people come together to form a stable and peaceful society in which they have more power and authority over others. It is also the process used to gain more power and economic strength to build up a society. Throughout the world, many different people or groups are practicing …show more content…

One of these theories of government is the Divine Right Theory; in this theory, it states that a person deserves to govern others because god gave them that right. This theory applies to many forms of government like monarchs because ‘a monarch is subject to no earthly authority and derives his right to rule directly from the will of God’. Another reason for government comes from the force/prison theory, in this theory it states that a person or small group can gain control of a state and its people by force. This theory heavily comes in place when dealing with a form of government like communism because in this government people gain and maintain power through brute force and military strength. Leaders based on this theory include Kim Jong-un and Genghis Khan, one of many ruthless leaders who used everything they could to destroy the lives of the people they governed, when they did not get the respect or integrity they deserved. It is only through these theories that we are able to comprehend why some forms of government exist and are run the way they …show more content…

One way to attain wealth is by selling and buying goods that others want or have so that good amounts of profits are made. Many different people gain access to these goods by setting up economic based markets in which he, she, or the government controls. There are three types of economic system plans shared by all, Free Market Economy, Command Economy and Free Enterprise. In a Free market economy, the government imposes few or no restrictions and regulations on buyers and seller. This means that sellers determine what products are produced, how, when and where they are made, to whom they are offered, and at what prices are based on supply and demand. In a command economy, the government determines all production, investment, prices, and incomes centrally. This means that sellers do not have a say in what they think about what price should be on a product or what products they get to sell. In a free enterprise economy private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. This means that companies constantly try to produce new products in hopes of outshining every other big business. Even if the government has little to no role in some of these economic systems, they still profit from it because as the money goes from the buyers hand to the sellers it eventually finds its way to the

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