Assertion: monarchy's power | /r/HasProperty | given
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text: The army and navy may swear an oath to the monarch, but the real power to control it is given to the elected government.
text: The army and navy may swear an oath to the monarch, but the real power to control it is given to the elected government.
text: Power was to be given to the council to appoint lieutenants and make proclamations; sheriffs and heritable officers were to be astricted to execute the council
text: In its origins, the divine-right theory may be traced to the medieval conception of God’s award of temporal power to the political ruler, while spiritual power was given to the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
text: Tacitus was one of the first to ask whether such powers were given to the head of state because the citizens wanted to give them, or whether they were given for other reasons (for example, because one had a deified ancestor).