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18 Feb 2015, 10:14 am by Team Interns
It was built in 1882 by King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani and was home to Hawaii’s final monarchs. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 3:43 am
To be sure, the US Constitution itself has not only survived the crises confronting it in the past, but in so doing, it has in itself become our nation's most powerful symbol of unity--a far preferable alternative to a monarch or a national religion, the institutions on which most nations around the world have relied. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:36 am
The average middle-class American might have a smaller measured income than the European monarchs of the Middle Ages, but I suspect that Tudor King Henry VIII would have traded half his kingdom for modern plumbing, a lifetime supply of antibiotics and access to the Internet. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 12:01 pm by Lawrence Solum
This Article argues that developments in parliamentary procedure beginning in the late-Tudor period — a period in which the House of Commons has traditionally been seen as completely subservient to the Crown — allowed the House to develop the language and conceptual categories that it would later use to oppose the early Stuart monarchs. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 4:30 am by Keith E. Whittington
In particular, he sensitively examines each of the "prerogative" powers of the British monarch and shows how the framers carefully considered which to allocate to an elected president, which to the Senate, and which to the Congress as a whole. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 4:14 pm
Considering that the UK actually is a theocracy (the reigning monarch is both head of state and head of the uniquely established church that the state recognizes), it's all pretty relaxed and inclusive and not worth a serious person's protest time.The UK actually is a theocracy... but a serious, completely secular person shouldn't mind it at all. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 2:13 pm by Chip Merlin
  Thought For Afternoon Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 12:15 am
   Lacking a monarch, California limits corporations sole to the religious. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 4:46 pm by Jim Walker
In 2012, a 14 month old toddler fell from deck 12 to deck 11 on the Monarch of the Seas and was injured. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 1:37 pm
At the time, the girl was allegedly driving in the wrong lane of the 13400 block of Southwest 22nd Street in the Monarchs Lakes community. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Cordell Parvin
When I was practicing law and sent handwritten or typed notes, I used monarch stationary. [read post]
6 May 2014, 5:11 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” Among other pollinators, iconic monarch butterfly declines are well documented: Their numbers are now at a small fraction of historical levels. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 7:33 am
Hobbes argued that men's violent hypermasculinity made them ineligible for the disciplined and mature enterprise of self-government; he believed that only an absolute monarch could control men for purposes of collective peace. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 11:58 am by Charon QC
” For my part, this is a missed opportunity to place the United Kingdom Supreme Court apart from the geegaws and baubles of a bygone age; to set it apart politically, philosophically and morally from the  patronage of parliament, government, executive or monarch. [read post]
18 Feb 2018, 12:56 am by Kerri Crawford (SA)
It follows several media reports about a leaked recording of a telephone conversation between the Zulu monarch, King Goodwill Zwelethini, and an insurance sales representative from MiWay, which the Information Regulator stated that it has ‘noted with concern’. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 5:05 pm by Kevin
Official state bird: the yellow-hammer Official state horse: the racking horse Official state tree: the southern longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Miller) Official state mineral: hematite Official Poet Laureate: currently, Andrew Glaze Official state game bird: the wild turkey Official state nut: pecan Official state fossil: the "Species Basilosaurus Cetoides" Official state fossil name mistake: including "species" in the name of the species Official state renaissance faire: the one in… [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 12:01 am
Based on the discussion in the comments section last night and the general events since the first of the year, perhaps we should all take a moment to reflect on the words.The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest:it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown;….Therefore, Jew,Though justice be thy… [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” Jefferson observed: …it is replete with sound principles, and truly republican. some articles too are worthy of peculiar notice. the idea that institutions established for the use of the nation, cannot be touched nor modified, even to make them answer their end, because of rights gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps be a salutary provision against the abuses of a monarch, but is most absurd against the nation itself. yet… [read post]