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11 Jan 2016, 9:37 am
The Atlantic writer gives a reason against that use of "survey," but to me, it's familiar from the poem "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" by Willliam Cowper:I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute Click for more » [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 6:14 pm
Monarchs lay eggs only on milkweed plants—the only food their larvae can eat. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 8:16 am
It was adapted by the framers from the well-known British concept of the “natural born subject” of the sovereign monarch. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 12:30 am
While admitting that the term “royalist” is problematic, Nelson defends his use of it by claiming that some colonists “equated their position with that of the Stuart monarchs of the seventeenth century and traced the origins of the imperial crisis of the 1760s to the defeat of the seventeenth-century Royalist cause” (240, n32). [read post]
2 Jan 2016, 7:52 pm
It suggests that this year is likely to top last, which itself saw a dramatic rise from the year before.The executions of at least 157 people in 2015, a year that began with the inauguration of a new monarch, King Salman, were a sharp increase from the 90 people put to death in 2014. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 7:23 am
These summaries describe actions made pursuant to ESA Section 4, including the publication of final rules for listings for 31 species (including the Northern Long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Rufa Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa), and Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae)), proposed rules for listings of 67 species (including 49 species from Hawaii, the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus), and Suwanee Moccasinshell (Medionidus walkeri)), not warranted findings or… [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 7:23 am
These summaries describe actions made pursuant to ESA Section 4, including the publication of final rules for listings for 31 species (including the Northern Long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Rufa Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa), and Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae)), proposed rules for listings of 67 species (including 49 species from Hawaii, the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus), and Suwanee Moccasinshell (Medionidus walkeri)), not warranted findings or… [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]
16 Dec 2015, 12:01 am
On March 31, 1492, the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) had ordered the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 12:01 am
European monarchs were all related, after all; vacations were taken abroad at all levels of society; food preferences were becoming global; and some cities were beginning to look interchangeable, in spite of their putative exoticism. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 11:43 am
They also indicate that they take steps to ensure that disclosures of metadata are not made to governments with poor human rights records, and are not made when such disclosure would be used to prosecute individuals for speech crimes (for example, the crime of insulting a monarch). [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 6:15 am
Here's the idea: The cataclysm of the Great War, the birth of democratic nation-states upon the ruins of monarchic empires, and efforts to found the League of Nations challenged contemporary legal theorists to restate, re-frame – or indeed to found anew – the principles of European internationalism. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 7:29 am
This power is now exercised by the Prime Minister, on the monarch’s behalf. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 4:44 pm
But it is a matter of consensus understanding and centuries-old unbroken practice that the Monarch exercises those powers on the advice of her Ministers—which is a polite way of saying that the elected leadership of Parliament asks the Monarch to do X and the Monarch duly says “I hereby do X. [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 9:30 am
In dynastical structures house arrest was deployed against monarchs deprived of their power. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 4:41 pm
The enduring celebrity status of the royal family is also considered in four special chapters of the book dealing with the constitutional position of the monarch in terms of taking personal legal action to protect privacy rights, the changes (made in 2010) to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 giving key members of the royal family and royal household an absolute exemption from the Act, the change in the way in which the royal family is financed in the Sovereign Grant Act 2011 and… [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 12:25 am
On top of that, the Tudor monarchs of the 16th century mandated that all towns and villages maintain public target ranges. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 8:44 am
(The role of the JCPC is technically to advise the monarch, hence the crest. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 10:54 am
Harper standing in front of our Legislature; Yes, the guy running for the Liberal Party is the son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, not that we have any sort of monarchical tendencies in Canada; Unlike in the US, in Canada there is no limit on the consecutive number of terms a leader can hold the top job. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 5:54 am
Harper standing in front of our Legislature; Yes, the guy running for the Liberal Party is the son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, not that we have any sort of monarchical tendencies in Canada; Unlike in the US, in Canada there is no limit on the consecutive number of terms a leader can hold the top job. [read post]
