divine right

All elites are good at rationalizing their eliteness, whether it's meritocracy or “the divine right of kings.”

They find vociferous support in attacking "outsiders" for taking jobs that belong, possibly by divine right, to sons of the soil.

He was a deputy sitting on the right and upholding the Royalist platform of Divine Right.

It is true that the Grecians have not known the Divine right of tyrants or usurpers over their native country.

If their divine right of citizenship has been forfeited, it is by their own civic sin of omission.

The assembly of divines had voted Presbytery to be of divine right: the parliament refused their assent to that decision.

The feudal kings of Europe claimed a "divine right," and professed to reign by the "grace of God."