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7 Feb 2022, 5:00 am
Americans remain goo-goo-ga-ga over all things monarchical and royal, and not in the funny and endearing way of babies, but in the babbling, stupefying, and distracting manner of ill-formed adults. [read post]
5 Feb 2022, 10:46 am
The image remains the very embodied essence of the English monarch. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 8:06 am
Some fun facts: Royal protocol prohibits the monarch from eating anything with her fingers except afternoon tea. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 5:47 am
The nonhierarchical trend this new wealth distribution presented spurred Queen Elizabeth I to act; by passing a series of strict laws dealing with dress codes, the monarch was able to define and set distinctions between the different strata of society once again. [read post]
23 Jan 2022, 10:53 am
This particular region, now known as the Nachusa Grasslands, was covered in part by neat rows of corn and soy, and that left little habitat for monarch butterflies, bison, or any of the thousands of plants and animals that depend on prairie ecosystems. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 6:14 am
Nabokov Pnin vi. 138 Amber-brown Monarch butterflies flapped.., their incompletely retracted black legs hanging rather low beneath their polka-dotted bodies.1996 Esquire June 38 A model whose nom de spume was Big Ginger bobbed her lush mangoes perkily against her polka-dotted bikini top. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 5:31 am
Likewise, James Wilson, one of the main drafters of the Constitution and one of the first Supreme Court justices, defended the Constitution in 1787 by speaking of the three forms of government being the "monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical," and said that in a democracy the sovereign power is "inherent in the people, and is either exercised by themselves or by their representatives. [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 9:12 am
Yes, they have a king, but one with, as far as I can tell, many fewer powers than our own elected monarch, and the people who live there, more rights. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 9:05 pm
Petitioners also challenged EPA’s decision based on risks to the environment and imperiled species, such as the Monarch butterfly. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 5:50 am
Spain’s monarch was Queen Isabella II, who took over after the Carlist War and reigned throughout extreme political turmoil. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 5:26 am
I’m sure it would have, back when the monarch could do whatever he or she wanted, but things are different now. [read post]
18 Dec 2021, 8:53 am
Talleyrand made the statement above to Napoleon Bonaparte to reproach Napoleon for his treachery in tricking King Charles IV and Queen Marie Luisa, the Bourbon monarchs of Spain, to abdicate their thrones in favor of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 12:25 pm
A corporation could only be created in one of four ways, namely a) by the common law (the prime example of this was the king; the British monarch is still today a corporation sole); b) by the authority of parliament; c) by royal charter, and d) by prescription or custom. ((1612) 10 Co. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 12:50 pm
This is a challenging time for our university, but I am confident that we will come together and move forward as a Monarch family. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 1:46 am
He also referred to various passages from case law including Lord Diplock’s observations in Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd [1981] AC 251, 279: “Elementary justice or, to use the concept often cited by the European Court [of Justice], the need for legal certainty demands that the rules by which the citizen is to be bound should be ascertainable by him (or, more realistically, by a competent lawyer advising him) by reference to identifiable sources that are publicly accessible. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
Even popular fiction provides vivid examples, such as the government advisor Varys in "Game of Thrones," who explained his willingness to serve a series of rulers by saying that he was not being disloyal by supporting a change in monarchs when conscience demanded. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 1:41 pm
” This reflected the monarch’s monopoly on violence, and those who did go armed in public were viewed as threatening the “King’s Peace. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 2:23 pm
Indeed, the 1689 English Bill of Rights repudiated previous abuses by monarchs, and guaranteed the English right to arms. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 7:00 am
Getting the requisite supply of money requires, very often, the willing supply of funds, either through taxes or loans, to the monarchs and their minions who wish to build them. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 7:30 am
The drafters might have been current rulers (monarchs or emperors), or leaders of resistance movements, or military men seeking power, but they were rarely women (p. 270). [read post]
