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9 Jun 2011, 8:17 am
“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 2:42 pm
” Head of Legal points out that while The Monarch cannot be a catholic, there is freedom of religion for MPs. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 9:38 am
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]
10 Oct 2008, 10:12 pm
The IIHS booster seats that rated highest were: Fisher Price Safety Voyage, The Britax Parkway and Monarch, The LaRoche Bros, Teddy Bear, the backless, Graco Turbobooster, the backless Combi Kobuk and the Recaro Young Style. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 5:13 am
The idea that the common law conferred distinctive rights on English subjects was already put forth in opposition to 14th and 15th century English monarchs who sought to emulate the mercantilist policies of their French counterparts, as the writings of Sir John Fortesque attest. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 9:56 am
Indeed, perhaps we should consider putting in place an entirely ceremonial monarch. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 4:12 pm
" When a person brings us bad news, our tendency is to be angry with the person who brought us the news (and, if we are angry enough and enjoy monarchical power, kill that person). [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 9:31 am
To be sure, the crown today is not worn by a monarch. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 3:14 am
Regis Monarch sales conference by saying that AIG spent $500,000 when it was $443,343.71 ($402,701.04 was prepaid deposit) Amount of Fox News Embellishment $56,656.29 Next Fox News incorrectly reported that the government basically owns 80% of AIG and the initial bailout amount as $80B. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 5:59 am
And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 1:48 pm
A president isn’t a monarch, and shouldn’t be. [read post]
4 May 2010, 12:58 pm
Today, sovereignty resides not in the monarch but with voters, but the ability to invoke the power of government to enforce private contracts--the ability of a private person to make another, be it a business or an individual, do what it had merely promised it would do--that ability is a bedrock rule that facilitates commerce.Whether we surface this to consciousness or not, almost all of us expect government to enforce private agreements and arbitrate disputes. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 8:00 pm
The monarch has canceled all his public engagements while he receives treatment, though he’s been photographed walking to church and meeting privately with government officials and dignitaries. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 11:52 am
Our Rotary Club (Monarch Beach Sunrise Rotary) is proud and excited to join other Rotarians around our District and world in support of Water for Sudan, Inc. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 1:35 pm
But his October 2004 statement in favor of the amendment makes points that remain just as relevant today; though, sadly, the GOP's descent into anti-immigrant xenophobia makes it much less likely that a prominent conservative politician would submit a similar amendment now: While there was scant debate on this provision during the Constitutional Convention, it is apparent that the decision to include the natural born citizen requirement in our Constitution was driven largely by the concern over… [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 3:11 pm
I guess maybe to some people in Europe, it's not so silly to have laws that exclude the descendents of the former royal and noble families from becoming heads of state, but it seems rather silly to me that someone who can run for a country's Parliament and therefore theoretically become its Prime Minister and actual head of government cannot also run for President and become the country's honorary public figurehead:A descendant of the Habsburgs is taking Austria to the European Court… [read post]
16 Oct 2010, 9:32 am
There have been four prior suicides by Royal Caribbean crew members in the past 10 months, on the Monarch of the Seas on January 1st, on the Radiance of the Seas on March 21st, on the Explorer of the Seas on May 5th, and on on the Oasis of the Seas on May 24th. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 7:00 pm
Supreme Court must have declined to consider the question of what, exactly, was up with that mailbox.Finally, the court said, plaintiff also made the following claim:The birds todayAre singing loudly,The day is freshWith the soundsUpon the windThe crickets.The blackbirdsThe woodpeckersBeauty in everySpark of lifeJust So their soundsAre appreciatedTheir sounds are beautyThe ants are silentBut always searchingThe birds noise a songand the fade of the automobile tiresChirp.A shadow from a passing… [read post]
30 Aug 2008, 10:38 pm
But she will be nominated, because we begin treating even our presidential candidates as the equivalent of monarchs who are free to engage in all sorts of indefensible decisions. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:19 am
Schama concludes as follows:we will find out whether Clegg—whose party, under the current system, will be awarded proportionately far fewer seats than either of the others—has the stuff of the revolutionary parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell in him (minus the disagreeable beheading of the monarch). [read post]
