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12. True or False. John Locke believed that Kings ruled through the divine right of authority.

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The English political philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) flatly rejected the notion of the divine right of monarchy. Under the divine right theory, the king gains his sovereignty from God. In this way, the king does not need to respect the governed, because his power was commissioned by a higher power.

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