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22 Apr 2014, 7:30 pm
AFP says:Burnei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah — the driving force behind sharia — is visiting Singapore, and the government is believed to be waiting for the all-powerful Islamic monarch to return before introducing the sensitive legal code.But the delay could feed perceptions of hesitation by the 67-year-old sultan — one of the world’s wealthiest men — who earlier this year faced a backlash from the country’s social-media-savvy citizens. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 4:00 am
The authorities and rights of the monarch were personal, as were the ties of fidelity and service that bound individuals to the monarch, and vice versa. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 10:52 pm
Shakespeare's Richard II, feeling sorry for himself, recognizing that his situation is hopeless and he will shortly be deposed:For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings;How some have been deposed; some slain in war,Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;All murder'd: for within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court and there the antic sits,Scoffing his state and… [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 3:43 am
On Saturday, I was confident enough in my mastery of the transit system to take the Tunnelbana to Drottningholm Palace, the Swedish royal palace and residence of the current monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 2:06 am
A Danish flag flying from the rooftop signaled that the current monarch, Queen Margrethe II, was in residence at the palace while I was in town. [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 2:05 am
The new monarch, Wilhelm II, opposed many of Bismarck’s careful policies, preferring that Germany should have her “place in the sun. [read post]
15 Mar 2014, 8:39 am
COMMUNITIES SERVED IN VIRGINIA Amelia County Amelia County, which includes the post office addresses of Amelia Court House, Jetersville, and Mannboro, Virginia, has a population of approximately 12,805 and covers 355 square miles in Central Virginia, southwest of Richmond City, and bordering the Virginia counties of Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Powhatan and Prince Edward. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 5:00 am
Machiavelli for Chief Compliance Officers by Tom Fox in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog Lesson No. 1 – Heed Selected Advice from Selected Advisors While in medieval Florence, the Prince ruled as the supreme monarch, he still needed advisors. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 5:05 pm
At the same time that spraying of glyphosate has soared, the monarch butterfly population has been plunging. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 5:45 pm
Yurii Andrukhovych seems to recognize this perspective in his 1993 novel Moskovodiada, where he itemizes the titles of Olelko II, king of Ukraine, descendant (so he says) of he Riurykovychs and Dolgorukiis:Sovereign and Ruler of Rus-Ukraine, Great Prince of Kiev and Chernihiv, King of Galicia and Volhynia, Master of Pskov, Peremyshl and Koziatyn, Duke [Hertzog] of Dniproderzhynsk, First of May and Illich, Great Khan of Crimea and Izmail, Baron of Berdychiv, of both Bukovyna and Bessarabia,… [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 8:37 am
Similar to other Gulf state funds, the QIA has modest amount of overall transparency while the maintenance of the fund is securely held by the monarch. [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 9:52 pm
As a Milanese historian, he was aware of the old Piedmontese custom of grabbing and annexing bits of Lombardy, and he was rightly apprehensive about the ambitions of the Savoia monarchs in his own time. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 2:14 pm
To be clear: Charles V (aka Carlos V) was the monarch in power over the realm comprising both of the lands that today are Belgium and Mexico. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 2:57 am
It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The 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's When mercy seasons justice. [read post]
9 Feb 2014, 3:23 pm
” Stendhal’s reactionary aristocracy of the Bourbon Restoration had good reasons to fear for their restoration and to wonder who would continue to guarantee the “monarchical principle. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 5:30 am
Alexander Hamilton argued in issue LXIX (1788) that an impeachable American President was preferable to an unaccountable British monarch, and that: In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the president of confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Virginia and Delaware.Impeachment was incorporated into Article II, § 4 of the U.S. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 8:53 am
This Article situates bodily regulation within Anglo-American constitutionalism, including nascent constitutional Tudor-era struggles between the monarch and Parliament, the status of colonial laws, the American Revolution, pre-constitutional slavery, and the formation of the Constitution, including a proposed “Sumptuary Clause. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 4:00 am
When I was practicing law and sent handwritten or typed notes, I used monarch stationary. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 1:10 am
In addition, Ferling avers, Paine demythologized monarchical rule, arguing that it elevated incompetents and rogues to the throne, where they then spent their time making war and giving titles to sycophants. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 9:19 am
Similarly, we have a monarch while the Brits have only a symbolic one. [read post]
