King's Guide

In all cultures there is a mysterious connection between rulers and God or the gods. Religion was a proto-government and monarchy is the default form of government. The lessons of this book, 'King's Guide' and of the books studied in it are also applicable to all leaders. Spiritual and physical(temporal) leadership has an obvious benefit of cooperation. Israel/Judea had separate kingly and priestly lineages. In Rome, Julius Caesar had been the chief priest, Pontifex Maximus and later became a deified emperor of the imperial cult, Divus Julius and father of the nation, Parens Patriea. The Greeks began deifying their rulers with Alexander the Great. Often Roman and Greek leaders would proclaim their lineages traced back to gods.
The 12 Commandments of Moses and The Code of Hammurabi are examples of early constitutionalism or rule of law, which represents a power above the King. This is a pattern repeated through lessons written down stretching back to the ancient past. The concept could also be viewed as natural law. The belief in a Mandate of Heaven is that the good and ill which effect a nation are a reflection of the will of God.
Read King's Guide series by Corey Daniels to learn lessons these stories taught, interpreted into plain modern English, with unique insights from the author. There is a fractal aspect to these lessons, natural lessons the gods and the wise learn pass through kings and published to all the men. Every man a king.

"At that time, the gods Anu and Enlil, for the enhancement of the well-being of the people, named me by my name: Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak." - Hammurabi's Code of Laws, Prologue