Patriarchalism is an archetypal political conception that arose most succinctly in seventeenth century England.
[1] Due to divisive religious policy, controversial political strategy at home and disastrous diplomatic campaigns abroad, James I and Charles I alienated the consensus of the people.
Against this increasing opposition, the Patriarchalists emphasized the absolute right of the king, as the paternal head of state.
In Patriarcha (composed in the late 1620s), Sir Robert Filmer said "many out of an imaginary fear pretend the power of the people to be necessary for the repressing of the insolencies of tyrants, herein they propound a remedy far worse than the disease".
Kynaston put forward the view that the inferior (the people) ought not to plot against the superior (the king).