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3 Sep 2016, 5:10 pm
As political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels put it in another important new book on political ignorance, “the ideal of popular sovereignty plays the same role in contemporary democratic ideology that the divine right of kings played in the monarchical era. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 7:02 am
” Prerogative Powers are those executive powers held by the Monarch, independent of statutory authority, and exercised by the Prime Minister in some instances, most often in the contexts of treaty-making, war and foreign affairs. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 8:47 am
They were working with a company called Monarch America, a company based in Colorado that was hired by the tribe to work on the resort idea. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 9:14 am
King John was the reigning monarch of England, and it was not going well for him. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 5:06 am
The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi....Senior U.S. officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 8:20 am
As they put it, “the ideal of popular sovereignty plays the same role in contemporary democratic ideology that the divine right of kings played in the monarchical era” (19). [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 8:17 am
The Monarch of the Seas scored a 85 in 2011. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 6:53 am
Lobbying New York: “Jackson Lewis Lands 39-Member Wilson Elser Lobbying Group” by Christine Simmons for New York Law Journal Campaign Finance California: “Commerce Councilwoman Faces State’s Largest-Ever Penalty Against a Local Elected Official” by Adam Elmahrek for Los Angeles Times District of Columbia: “Vincent Gray 2010 Campaign Chauffeur Sentenced to a Year’s Probation” by Keith Alexander for Washington Post Indiana: “No Criminal Charges for… [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 3:00 am
One important precedent, as Sandy points out, is that the monarch does not withhold royal assent from acts of parliament; although the royal assent is required, the unelected monarch is not a political actor and so approves whatever legislation parliament hands to her. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 3:24 pm
Benjamin Franklin Bache accused George Washington of incompetence and financial irregularities, and charged the “the blind, bald, crippled, toothless, querulous Adams” with nepotism and monarchical ambition in his newspaper “The Aurora”. [read post]
2 Jul 2016, 4:10 pm
But no monarch has vetoed legislation since 1708, and no one believes (save the author of the excellent play Charles III) that any monarch will try to reinvigorate this practice. [read post]
2 Jul 2016, 2:42 pm
” The point of the title was that the law precedes the king; the monarch must obey the law. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
The Bourbon monarchs ingeniously extended their power by hiring, or more accurately selling, judicial and financial offices. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:25 pm
The late King Abdullah made steps to distance the state from the clergy, but King Salman’s monarchical arrangement is different, resulting in a shift back toward the clerics. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 5:15 am
And so, as you might expect, the campers instead wanted to argue that the rightful monarch of Scotland is in fact Jesus Christ, that the Stone of Destiny should be brought out for His coronation, and that Queen Elizabeth II should be called as a witness (I guess so she could be cross-examined until she agreed to give up Scotland). [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 4:02 pm
Monarch Academy Annapolis Campus, a public contract school which will serve students in kindergarten through fifth grades, named Susan Myers principal. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 4:18 pm
On this occasion the subject of the Sun’s misleading headline was the monarch, who we may assume will get over it. [read post]
17 May 2016, 10:01 pm
The scientists looked at whether the suppression of milkweed by herbicides is causing any harm to the monarch population and found not only that it is not, but that indeed the monarch population during the past two years has made a moderate rebound. [read post]
16 May 2016, 6:22 am
Cuba appears headed toward a form of Praetorian Marxism and North Korea toward Monarchical Marxism. [read post]
12 May 2016, 12:12 pm
I personally think presidents should have to go over there every so often and answer questions hurled at them by the opposition, complete with the jeering by both sides that punctuates Question Time, as you can see and hear in this clip of yisterday’s session: That seems much healthier to me than a system where the president only shows up once a year, and then parades in and reads a speech like some monarch addressing subjects from a balcony. [read post]
