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1 Oct 2022, 8:57 am
. 'Caesarism' is the exact opposite of monarchism.... [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 5:01 am
Any society in which wealth and income continue to increase disproportionately for the elite, whether monarchs and nobles or their modern-day equivalents, is a society that becomes increasingly unstable.So, ultimately, I prefer other solutions than cutting payroll taxes. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 5:18 pm
--even though the "crown" in each case would be a different crown in each country (and no, I have no idea whether any of the three would refer to the monarch as "the crown," but it is convenient for my purpose). [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 9:55 pm
Consider reading: Sexual Perverts & Pedophiles on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships Rape of 15 Year Old Girl Is Latest Crime Against Children on Carnival Cruises Another Child Porn Bust, This Time on Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas How safe is a cruise? [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 5:30 am
Alexander Hamilton argued in issue LXIX (1788) that an impeachable American President was preferable to an unaccountable British monarch, and that: In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the president of confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Virginia and Delaware.Impeachment was incorporated into Article II, § 4 of the U.S. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 9:52 pm
As a Milanese historian, he was aware of the old Piedmontese custom of grabbing and annexing bits of Lombardy, and he was rightly apprehensive about the ambitions of the Savoia monarchs in his own time. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 7:23 am
Monarchs and dictators name relatives to high-level government positions regardless of their qualifications. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 5:37 am
"It’s as if the Sex Pistols were singing about law and order instead of anarchy, as if their chart-busting (banned) single, “God Save the Queen,” were not a foamingly sarcastic diatribe but a sincere pledge of fealty to the monarch. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 5:30 am
Candidates for such sovereignty have included “the people,” Parliament, a monarch, or, of course, God. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 9:29 am
As I explained in this post long ago, the oath of conformity to the Church replaced the oath of conformity to the Crown when PECUSA broke off from the Church of England, and could no longer recognize Britain's monarch as its head.But the oath of conformity was not the chief oath made in the ordination process, as I also explained in that post. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 4:38 am
., that the Presidency was originally understood as an imperial, even monarchical, office. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 10:29 am
It is then that we turn to the monarch or her representative to ensure constitutional practice is observed. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 7:35 pm
Situated between Asia’s largest Muslim majority countries, Brunei has long sought to become a regional hub for Islamic banking, finance and services.While there is no evidence to suggest that sharia law influences the investment decisions of GCC countries, harsher Islamic laws would put Brunei’s legal and religious strictures closer in sync with Saudi Arabia and others.In March last year, King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud became the first Saudi monarch to visit Brunei. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 8:23 am
”Unlike his father, who, despite being widely revered throughout the Kingdom, wielded power in a much more subtle manner during his 70-year reign, Chambers said the new monarch appears to have a more hands-on approach to his authority. [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 8:51 am
<> Members of Congress Call for Listing Monarch Butterfly as Threatened - (Beyond Pesticides March 18, 2015) Fifty-two members of Congress penned a letter to the White House calling for the protection of the Monarch butterfly, which has declined by 90 percent in the last 20 years, and for listing as a 'threatened' species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 5:13 am
” With an expansion of the pardon power, we have the opportunity to rule ourselves as monarchs, with all the magnanimity and grace that implies. [read post]
14 Jan 2020, 5:00 am
It was another example of the Omani monarch’s skillful touch. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 10:52 pm
Shakespeare's Richard II, feeling sorry for himself, recognizing that his situation is hopeless and he will shortly be deposed: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… [read post]
28 Jun 2014, 9:00 pm
Almost all monarchs in Europe of that time, even if some claimed rule by "divine right", were subject to being deposed by a class of aristocrats, and to having a new one elected by them. [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 1:33 pm
’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe thronèd monarch better than his crown.His scepter shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majestyWherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptered sway.It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings;It is an attribute to God Himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. [read post]
