Helpful aside: "Province", not "providence". The former is an administrative division of a larger polity; the latter is the grace of God, which could lead to some confusion when mentioned in this context.
Oops. No idea where that came from; I know better. Perhaps the backwards state of SomethingElse believes not only in the divine right of Kings, but the divine right of Dukes and perhaps even other nobility as well...
Well, if you assume both a peerage and a divine-right monarchy, then the divine right of peers seems more or less implicit, since they're created as such by the Crown, and a monarch anointed and guided by God would not fail to recognize who among her subjects is worthy of elevation. Subordination doesn't seem hard to handle in such a system; a duke's word, for example, would be God-given law save where it happened to conflict with the dictates of the Queen, an earl's likewise in relation to a duke, and on down the line, and presumably such conflicts could be handled by any noble of higher rank than the one found to be in conflict -- an earl, for example, might censure an unruly baron.
…come to think about it, given a few global string replacements, haven't we just more or less reinvented both the British peerage and the Roman Catholic Church?
