#usurpation

• To arrogate to oneself — To claim, assume, or attribute to oneself abusively and unjustifiably a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without having the legal or moral authority to do so. Used almost exclusively as a reflexive verb ('a-și aroga').
• Arrogation — The act of arrogating and its result; the abusive and unjustified assumption, attribution, or claiming of a right, title, power, merit, or privilege without legal or moral authority. In constitutional contexts, it denotes the illegal usurpation of prerogatives between institutions.
• Athaliah — Queen of the Kingdom of Judah in the 9th century BC, daughter of King Ahab of Israel and Queen Jezebel, and wife of King Jehoram of Judah. According to Biblical accounts in the Old Testament, after the death of her son Ahaziah, she usurped the throne and ordered the execution of all royal heirs to secure her power, being the only woman to rule as an authoritarian sovereign over Judah before being overthrown and executed during a coup led by the high priest Jehoiada.