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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]
17 Jan 2018, 9:30 pm
Praised by Voltaire and the French philosophes, Beccaria was toasted in Paris in 1766 for his literary achievement, and his book—though banned by the Inquisition and placed on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books—was lauded by monarchs and revolutionaries alike. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 12:30 am
While admitting that the term “royalist” is problematic, Nelson defends his use of it by claiming that some colonists “equated their position with that of the Stuart monarchs of the seventeenth century and traced the origins of the imperial crisis of the 1760s to the defeat of the seventeenth-century Royalist cause” (240, n32). [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 9:20 am
I imagine few who watched it know that in the past aristocrats and monarchs often 'kept' dwarf people like this – abusing, ridiculing, and, sometimes, even killing them... [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 10:54 am
Harper standing in front of our Legislature; Yes, the guy running for the Liberal Party is the son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, not that we have any sort of monarchical tendencies in Canada; Unlike in the US, in Canada there is no limit on the consecutive number of terms a leader can hold the top job. [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 2:37 am
After three decades of monarchical autocracy, the Himalayan Kingdom embarked on a delicate phase of transitional politics. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 9:37 am
The Atlantic writer gives a reason against that use of "survey," but to me, it's familiar from the poem "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" by Willliam Cowper:I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute Click for more » [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 10:00 am
Augustine simply does not treat of a monarch like Henry: a Christian, not a pagan, but not Christian as a ruler.Shakespeare's Henry is enigmatic: neither an Erasmian model, nor a Machiavellian one, nor an Augustinian one, fits him well. [read post]
21 May 2014, 6:30 am
Hamburger makes an impressive case that modern administrative law owes its lineage to claims of monarchical prerogative and civil law absolutism that were precisely the ideas that the American revolution was trying to reject. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 12:02 pm
The Italian state – a relatively weak state that always had to deal with a strong religion – is the only example of a state that contains another independent ecclesiastical (or sacerdotal-monarchical) state entity in the middle of its territory. [read post]
2 Oct 2022, 6:40 pm
.▫️Now the place is named after the Monarch Butterfly, a species which sports two pairs of bright orange-red wings which display black veins and white spots along the edges. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 7:26 am
Kimble admitted to owning four ambulance companies - Tamimi International Inc, Monarch Ambulance, HKO Group Inc, and Houston EMS - and that he frequently billed basic life support to Medicare for ambulance transports and services that were not medically necessary or not provided at all. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 9:26 am
The last cruise ship I recall flunking a USPH inspection for fruit flies was the old Monarch of the Seas. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 8:30 am
During the Cold War, many people bridled at obvious misnomers like “German Democratic Republic,” and perhaps there are some members of the Republican Party (which, come to think of it, has been drifting toward monarchism of late) who genuinely regard the Democratic Party as undemocratic. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm
Congress, the press, and individuals debated more than thirty titles, many of which had royal associations and some of which were clearly monarchical. [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 3:31 am
Our colleague @PeterAdamSmith was told yesterday: “The country has lost a Monarch, we have lost a neighbour”. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 8:07 am
Augustine simply does not treat of a monarch like Henry: a Christian, not a pagan, but not Christian as a ruler.Shakespeare's Henry is enigmatic: neither an Erasmian model, nor a Machiavellian one, nor an Augustinian one, fits him well. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 1:00 pm
It became more significant as the size and coercive capacity of the central government grew under the Tudor monarchs in the 16th century, however, and it became an acute concern with the transition to the Stuarts in the 17th. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 8:00 am
These differences, he shows us, were not minor matters of procedure but rather divergent ideas about best practice.Focusing on collective liability, access to legal recourse, and methods of proof, Stattel makes visible the distinctiveness of Anglo-Scandinavian communities long after their submission to Anglo-Saxon monarchs. [read post]
3 Oct 2008, 5:35 pm
Regis Monarch Beach Resort, billed as "California's only Mobil Travel Guide Five-Star Resort," where ocean-view rooms start at $565 a night and "world class luxury" is the rule.Here's the rest of the story. [read post]
