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9 Dec 2010, 2:44 pm
On Sunday evening, as Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas was returning from CocoCay, Bahamas, to Cape Canaveral, Fla., someone on board the cruise ship spotted a sinking raft. [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 12:17 pm by Tom Smith
To the royal household, it is known as the QXB – the Queen’s Christmas broadcast. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 8:38 am
“Constitutional experts and minority parties yesterday rallied behind proposals to repeal the 300-year bar to Catholics succeeding to the throne and end male precedence in the royal succession. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
She turned from liberal to conservative to reactionary over time (and as the revolution in France put her in fear of her own position as monarch) but nevertheless left a great legacy to Russia, including the acquisition of a Black Sea port, the importation of European philosophy, literature, art, medicine, education, and at least an introduction to the idea of eventual political reform. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 4:48 pm by INFORRM
The Government has been ordered to disclose information that will address the long-running Regina v Regina constitutional conundrum: when can the Queen, as reigning monarch, be asked or required to give evidence in her own courts? [read post]
30 May 2014, 5:50 am by Margaret Wood
  Indeed, now that I am an adult, I probably read more children’s books than I did as a kid–when I was trying to persuade the authorities to let me read adult biographies of the Tudor monarchs. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 8:56 am
Shakespeare wrote that "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge," and that "The quality of mercy is not strain'd ... it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 1:02 pm
" Folks in Wilson County, Tennessee would be wise to heed this monarch's words. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 3:36 pm
.'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown...But mercy is above this sceptred sway,It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God's,Portia, Merchant of Venice.Many times (but not too many) in our fabled career, we have been called upon to beseech those that wear black robes to dispense both mercy and justice.Lately, there has been commentary in the media about the 23… [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On March 31, 1492, the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) had ordered the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 5:08 am by Mark Graber
For those concerned that I am not keeping busy, this was just posted by The Atlantic. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 9:36 pm by Andrew Langille
The launch event kicks-off at 7:00 p.m. at the Monarch Tavern in Little Italy and there are a number of excellent speakers lined up: Paul Kershaw (Generation Squeeze); Sarah Blackstock (YWCA); Lekan Olawoye (Premier's Council on Youth Opportunities); Peter MacLeod (WageMark); and, Zahra Ebrahim (archiTEXT).The event is going to be a great start to launching a conversation about issues important to youths and need for a higher levels of intergenerational equity. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 10:49 am
Absolute Monarchs and Informal Cooperation Oliver Westerwinter, Transnational public-private governance initiatives in world politics: Introducing a new dataset Lisa L. [read post]
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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]
28 Nov 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
The starting point is Sir Edward Coke: he suggested that infidels could be conquered and constitutionally nullified, that they could be traded with only at the discretion of the monarch, and he confirmed their incapacity to enjoy full access to the common law. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 9:45 am
In our opinion, such increase of the significance of crime scene investigation in the criminal proceedings was caused by the formation of monarchical absolutist system in condition of the emerging Russian Empire. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Earlier this year, Canada's Parliament passed the Succession to the Throne Act, 2013, which gives assent to the amendments now passed by the British Parliament that eliminate preferences for male heirs in succession to the throne, and eliminates the ban on a monarch being married to a Catholic. [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Participants will be encouraged to explore the theme by reflecting on dividing lines drawn in the history of the law, and on who, or what, is within and without them.Insiders, for example, may be lawyers, judges, parliamentarians, monarchs, and others with the power to influence law and its enforcement. [read post]