Definition
Divine-favor-as-the-constitutive-source-of-legitimate-authority-as-received-ordinance — the grant of governing power by supreme divine will, where the grant creates both the authority and the accountability, the human cannot self-authorize, and the grant can be forfeited by moral failure. The political-theological foundation every major civilization articulates: where does the authority to govern come from? The Achaemenid answer — vašnā Auramazdāha — is the cleanest attestation in the ancient world: public, conditional, non-ontological.