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3 Jul 2011, 9:11 am by Mandelman
From the moment the Puritans, named because they wanted to “purify” the Christian Church, which at the time had become too liberal for their tastes as a result of King Henry VIII breaking ties with the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church over not allowing divorce and starting his own Protestant Church of England, stepped onto the Mayflower to seek freedom in a new land, Americans have been breaking rules and generally kicking butt in one way or another. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 8:42 am
  (available in Hein Online) “The King’s Oath or Chicken Oath” by R. [read post]
17 May 2011, 10:10 pm by tjsllibrary
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” S. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 12:44 pm
The Act of Settlement (passed in 1700 and enacted in 1701) states that Roman Catholics, or anyone married to a Roman Catholic, cannot hold the Crown. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 8:34 am by Meg Kribble
Roman Catholics and heirs who married them were explicitly removed from the line of succession. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 8:16 am
Historians generally agree that Tiberius' fifteenth year, in the regnal system used by Roman historians of the time, began in A.D. 29. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 11:15 pm
As the movie The King's Speech vividly demonstrates, even a mild-mannered stutterer could step forward to lead England when the circumstances required it of him. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 11:07 pm by David Kopel
Much of Philo’s treatise aimed to show that Jewish law from the Bible was consistent with Roman law. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 8:47 am by Charon QC
The President’s Speech If you haven’t seen this… it is definitely funnier than The King’s Speech...which wasn’t…… It is very good….. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 1:28 pm by Jon
Not the Magna Carta, contrary to popular myth, but the withdrawal by the Roman Catholic Church of approval of ordeal as a way to decide cases. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 1:49 pm by Mike Widener
” Fortescue's work contrasted the limited rule of English kings with the despotism of French kings. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 4:31 pm by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
The reason for his odd request was that as former ambassador to France, Franklin was given a portrait of King Louis XVI in a frame studded with 408 diamonds. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 6:30 am by Kurt Carroll
They are also important to the comparative legal scholar for their influence on other legal systems, particularly common law and Roman Dutch law. [read post]
25 Dec 2010, 12:03 am
At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Today is the first day of Saturnalia, the ancient Roman holiday that I have traditionally commemorated here at the Volokh Conspiracy (see here, here, and here). [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 12:26 pm
"  An "overflow" assembly of "[m]ore than 600 mourners" filled the Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in LA, according to the San Jose Mercury News. [read post]