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11 Feb 2013, 7:12 am
However, that has not stopped a feud from brewing over where the monarch's final resting place should actually be, as recently highlighted in a Times story. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 7:46 am
In their civil government, the emperors were supposed to exercise the undivided power of the monarch, and their edicts, inscribed with their joint names, were received in all the provinces, as promulgated by their mutual councils and authority. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
And we will inquire into attempts made by rulers, from absolute monarchs to ordinary heads of families, across a broad array of state and non-state polities, to exercise sovereign power over the persons and, in many cases, the actual bodies of those who comprised their households. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 2:17 am
Surprisingly, even if an organisation is incorporated by Royal charter or has the word "Royal" in its name with the monarch's approval it still needs further consent to satisfy the registrar. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 8:17 am
The Monarch of the Seas scored a 85 in 2011. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 4:51 am
”In the case of the eight on trial, the prosecutor, who responds directly to the monarch, has levelled charges that do not resemble recognisable crimes, such as “seeking to destabilise the social fabric by participating in protests and funeral processions,” “chanting slogans hostile to the regime,” and “seeking to incite discord and division. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 5:02 am
Baby rapers, torture killers, guys who fly airplanes into buildings, self-declared monarchs who commit genocide. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 9:30 pm
Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty.Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might… [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 1:30 am
-Jason Grey “For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings;How some have been deposed; some slain in war,Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;All murder'd: for within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court and there the antic sits,Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,Allowing him a breath, a little scene,To monarchize, be fear'd and… [read post]
15 Oct 2022, 6:27 am
The traditional presentation of gold ingots to the monarch? [read post]
6 May 2021, 5:29 am
The withdrawal of Prince Harry and Megan from royal duties; a 95 year old Monarch significantly more popular than her son. [read post]
4 May 2018, 2:20 am
It is a pity that the value of the Zulu monarchy is so misunderstood, even if a component of this emotive criticism is warranted.KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu announced during his budget vote for the 2018/19 financial year in the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday that the Zulu monarch's annual budget has been increased by R7-million‚ from R58.8-million last year to R65.8-million this year. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 9:30 am
Here's a description from the Press:In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor monarchs, the scriptural literalism of ardent Protestants,… [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 7:29 am
None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter–hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch’s robe. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 2:57 am
It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 10:25 am
But the threat to use military force on day one is something entirely different, unless one adopts the most extravagant theories of Hanoverian Monarch-like presidential power attached to John Yoo. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm
Characterised by growing recourse to formalised courts for civil dispute-resolution, and judicial centralisation around monarchs and rulers, this trend has been identified in various cultures and contexts since: in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, and in ‘New World’ colonies. [read post]
5 Sep 2022, 5:58 am
The Queen is in Scotland for the summer and the 96-year-old monarch has some mobility issues, as the Palace discretely refers to her age-related challenges.Truss has had a long and winding road to becoming PM. [read post]
25 Aug 2013, 6:22 am
Soon after Parliament beheaded King Charles in 1649, it proved itself just as tyrannical as the monarch, and jailed the opposition. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm
The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. [read post]
