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18 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
Monarch stationary and/or cards – In social media, email and text era, handwritten notes are more important than ever. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 1:00 pm
It became more significant as the size and coercive capacity of the central government grew under the Tudor monarchs in the 16th century, however, and it became an acute concern with the transition to the Stuarts in the 17th. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 10:30 am
Sultan Qaboos was the only Gulf monarch not to support the Saudi war. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 6:53 pm
” But he also evoked this country’s history more broadly – and in particular the desire of the Founding Fathers to depart from the English tradition of giving the monarch exclusive control over foreign affairs. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 9:30 am
Here's a description from the Press:In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor monarchs, the scriptural literalism of ardent Protestants,… [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 1:01 am
On this day in history, England’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Washington, D.C. for a five-day visit to the U.S. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 7:00 am
They not only fear that Iran is reshaping the political and sectarian landscape of the region, they fear that Iran has designs to completely overturn the present order of their monarchical regimes. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 1:01 am
On this day in history, 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in Westminster Abbey. [read post]
13 May 2015, 11:43 am
Likewise, James Wilson, one of the main drafters of the Constitution and one of the first Supreme Court Justices, defended the Constitution in 1787 by speaking of the three forms of government being the “monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical,” and said that in a democracy the sovereign power is “inherent in the people, and is either exercised by themselves or by their representatives. [read post]
3 May 2015, 6:42 pm
The royal baby also has potential relevance in the context of the Oath of Citizenship, which makes reference to the monarch, I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen. [read post]
1 May 2015, 11:43 am
Speaking of people who have more money than they should, King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced this week that he was naming a new successor, so if you had Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz in your fantasy monarch league, better luck next time. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 6:21 am
Cruise Critic reports that the Majesty of the Seas, built in 1992, is in dry dock in Freeport because the cruise ship is leaking oil. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 6:44 pm
It is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:‘T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown:His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred 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]
23 Apr 2015, 11:05 am
The second is that if the play was written before 1603, it was written about the ruling monarch’s father and mother. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 4:36 am
The case concerns the right of privacy and reputation of Monaco’s reigning monarch conflicting with the right to freedom of expression of the French magazine Paris-Match. [read post]
28 Mar 2015, 5:41 pm
What will be the impact upon the convention of a politically neutral monarch? [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 5:14 am
Texting may well be the "king of distraction," as an insurance-industry lobbyist recently told the Texas legislature, but if so it's a monarch in a multipolar world. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 9:15 pm
From a Harvard lawprof: were today’s abundance of law schools to give way in part to a revived clerkship/apprentice model, American law would develop more slowly and organically than it does now, besides which where’d we train our philosopher-monarchs? [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 6:32 am
But five centuries on, the long-lost monarch will be given a modern-day funeral with a splash of British pomp . [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]
