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15 Jun 2021, 2:18 pm
Just as the Declaration of Independence respects the right of a people to separate themselves from a distant monarch, Americans have respected the right of peoples around the world to self-determination: to decide for themselves who they will be governed by. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 4:32 pm
Based on the small thumbnails, it’s almost impossible to tell that they’re not real images: There’s a chestnut-colored dog with his tongue hanging out, a beautiful ocean vista, a monarch butterfly, and a juicy hamburger complete with melted cheese and a bun that looks like it was brushed with butter. [read post]
7 May 2008, 1:47 am
It is illegal to stand within one hundred yards of the reigning monarch when not wearing socks. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 11:32 am
Marcus Antonius: And Caesar’s spirit, raging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry “Havoc! [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 7:27 pm
Pardon us for looking such generous gift horses in the mouth, but it is hard to imagine so many governments, monarchs and businessmen in the Middle East giving money unless it was with some hope of a political return. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 10:36 am
via taibbi.substack.com Maybe it would be better if we had a hereditary monarch. [read post]
3 May 2022, 10:42 am
He seems to understand, which vanishingly few people do these days, that Our Constitution does indeed embody a principle of monarchism at least as large as that of democracy. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 10:07 am
In his July 1774 pamphlet “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” Thomas Jefferson proposed that the king revive the royal veto, which no monarch had used since Queen Anne in 1708. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 4:00 am
I purchased monarch stationary. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 4:52 am
The Preamble to the Act states that marriages in the Royal Family are "of the highest importance to the State" and that it is therefore desirable that the reigning Monarch gives consent. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 11:21 am
Who were the best TV or movie presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs in your view? [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 2:26 pm
I presume that there is no gentleman in Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barrogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which as more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D'Hozler; and though, as a man of the world; I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some pretenders to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who cleans my boots, and though I laugh to utter scorn the boasting of many of my countrymen, who are all for descending from kings of… [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 12:00 pm
” Story Let us be thankful our own Monarch is more tolerant and the family diffuses civil unrest by entertaining their subjects…. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 9:01 pm
This was the first (and so far only) time when the Monarch (Elizabeth II), Governor-General, Chief Justice (Dame Sian Elias), Speaker of the House (Margaret Wilson) and Prime Minister (Helen Clark) of a Commonwealth Realm were all female.While a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, she helped to draft the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm
That notion of public credit was, in principle, compatible with a monarchical form of government, but did not require a king to make it work. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 6:15 am
They amassed enormous wealth and helped to finance wars waged by European monarchs, but spectacularly fell from grace after the Muslims reconquered the Holy Land in 1244 and rumours surfaced of their heretic practices. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 6:02 pm
Among other things, it bars any Catholic from being the monarch. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 1:36 am
Since the time of Henry I, it had been used by succeeding monarchs. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 9:36 pm
"230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination," Perry told the EU. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 9:01 pm
" Today his son, King Albert II, serves as the country's constitutional monarch. [read post]
