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1 May 2016, 7:55 am by John Floyd
  In an Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times on April 29, 2016, Fordham University law professor and author of “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United,” Zephyr Teachout, wrote that the legal principles of bribery “date from England’s Statute of Westminster of 1275, which said no officer of the king should take payment for his public duties except what was owed by the monarch. [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 10:48 am by Tom Smith
The 90-year-old monarch is said to have told aides the helicopters were ‘over the top’ and they would be limited to three. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 12:46 pm by Bruce Riedel
That was a challenge to the essence of the Gulf monarchs’ existence. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 8:13 am
Those setting up the foundations for liberal constitutionalism, like Kant, failed to generate a new account of pardoning that would render it an important component of either the rule of law or democracy rather than a relic of monarchical sovereignty. [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 6:12 am by Jim Sedor
Louis Post-Dispatch Campaign Finance Arizona: “Bill Overhauling Campaign Finance Laws Heads to Arizona Governor” by Howard Fischer (Capitol Media Services) for Arizona Daily Star Indiana: “Exclusive: Special prosecutor investigating allegation against Monarch Beverage” by Tony Cook for Indianapolis Star Ethics Michigan: “Feds Charge 12 Detroit School Principals with Bribery” by Katrease Stafford and Tresa Baldas (Detroit Free Press) for USA Today… [read post]
27 Mar 2016, 4:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The United States, Mexico and Canada aim to increase the number of Eastern monarchs wintering in Mexico so that they occupy about six hectares, or about 15 acres, by 2020. [read post]
27 Mar 2016, 2:54 pm
At the heart of the tension is the issue of self-constitution.[28] Within the presumptions of state ideology, self-constitution is impossible, except as a political and perhaps religious act.[29] All tension disappears when private and transnational systems bend their knee to the state, even as the state might be required to bend a bit, like the feudal French monarchs, i [read post]
20 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm by INFORRM
The judge found in favour of Monarch Airlines and granted them an anti-harassment injunction. [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 1:08 am by INFORRM
So far, as all of these millions of people are concerned, the Queen has waded into the debate as to whether we should leave the EU and come down firmly on the side of those backing an exit vote, thereby driving a coach and horses through the conventions that bind her as a constitutional monarch. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 8:29 pm by Edward A. Fallone
  This abuse was due to the monarch’s absolute power to appoint anyone they chose. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 4:00 pm by Old Fox
linkWe stood in his footsteps in the church in Oxford where he made his final declaration before being led out the back door to be burned at the stake.Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer, detail of an oil painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1545; in the National Portrait …Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, LondonThomas Cranmer,  (born July 2, 1489, Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 21, 1556, Oxford), the first Protestant archbishop of… [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
  The Exercise of Reserve Powers in Victoria from 1912-1955, appeared in the Australian Bar Review 39 (2014): 198-214:     The reserve powers of the monarch or his or her vice-regal representatives are rarely exercised. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 9:38 am by Kelly Buchanan
We have the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, which all have the British monarch as head of state and parliamentary systems of government founded on the traditions of the Westminster model; Japan, which can also be characterized as a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government; Germany, a federal republic with a parliamentary system; France, which is a unitary republic and has what is often described as a “semi-presidential” system of government;… [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 4:00 am by Adam Dodek
Historically, Queen’s Counsel (or King’s Counsel when the reigning monarch is male) have been awarded in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries to senior members of the bar. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 12:50 pm by Liah Caravalho
She focused on how activists, monarchs, and legislators want to change family law with the intention of improving the rights of women and children. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm by RegBlog
The reason for such a government was to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful – and especially to prevent the president from becoming a monarch like King George III of the English Empire. [read post]
23 Jan 2016, 10:50 am by JB
  A republic is therefore an anti-monarchical, anti-aristocratic, and anti-oligarchical form of government.Second, republicanism implies the notion of a public interest. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 4:38 am by Neil Kinkopf
., that the Presidency was originally understood as an imperial, even monarchical, office. [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]