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9 Jun 2019, 7:30 am
For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. [read post]
2 Jun 2019, 1:34 pm
Unaffected by the settlement is a similar problem that arguably exists for monarch butterflies which population has dropped precipitously. [read post]
24 May 2019, 1:01 am
Victoria was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:30 pm
Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. [read post]
20 May 2019, 10:55 am
The extent to which federal obstruction of justice statutes apply to the president, especially when concerning actions facially within the office’s powers under Article II, has been hotly contested at least since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
19 May 2019, 10:20 pm
The implication is that no person subject to normal human weaknesses can be trusted with monarchical power. [read post]
19 May 2019, 7:00 am
Editor’s Note: Turkey has emerged as an important, but confusing, actor in the greater Middle East and beyond. [read post]
9 May 2019, 12:09 am
Apart from death by stoning for sexual offenses, the law also allows for amputation of limbs for theft and whipping for other violations.In a televised May 5 speech, the 72-year-old monarch appeared to step back from those measures, declaring first that Brunei would ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and that it would not enforce the death penalty on those convicted under new religious laws. [read post]
6 May 2019, 9:57 am
Instead of relying on charismatic leaders, the Westerosi would do better to impose much tighter institutional constraints on government power, including that of the monarch who sits on the Iron Throne. [read post]
1 May 2019, 8:47 am
In much the same sense as the British Crown, the Chrysanthemum Throne is an abstract metonymic concept that represents the monarch and the legal authority for the existence of the government....And an image of the literal throne:Here's the Wikipedia article on "Self-help or self-improvement. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:30 am
As a result, many nations, monarchs, corporations and Western seaboard economies financially benefited from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade through condonation and participation. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 6:55 pm
The system was based on the grant of a large tract of land (and everything on it) by the monarch to a designated individual (repartimiento) who held the land in trust but could exploit it and its inhabitants. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 1:17 pm
But it's also true she seems to have no notion that doing so requires institutional change, not merely replacing a bad monarch with a good one (preferably herself). [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 1:20 pm
., launching today on Steam and GOG, includes Tycoon-style business-growing scenarios that focus on both the legal and illegal sides of the marijuana trade during what developer Vile Monarch calls the "semi prohibition-era" for the drug. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 10:25 am
It also has a ring of monarchism or authoritarianism--"Your Majesty," "Your King," "Your Dear Leader. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 1:31 am
However, in early March, Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, told Parliament that the government would instead push for the abolishment of the mandatory death penalty for 11 offenses.Those offenses include nine that fall under the Penal Code involving terrorism and serious crimes, including murder, hostage-taking, organized crime, offenses against the constitutional monarch, and the use of firearms.Hanipa Maidin said that courts would be… [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 6:58 am
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its implementation are leading to environmental disaster which involves the destruction of the monarch butterfly habitat, climate change acceleration, and drainage of western aquifers, amongst other issues. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 1:01 am
Any marriage contracted without the consent of the monarch was to be null and void. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 3:44 am
The rest cover murder, hostage-taking, organized crime, offenses against the constitutional monarch and the use of firearms, a report by Singapore-based Straits Times said.Click headlines to visit the site. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 5:07 am
" The most committed divine rights theorists agreed with Filmer that "[w]hen the law must rule and govern the monarch, and not the monarch the law, he hath at the most but a gubernative or executive power. [read post]
