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2 May 2012, 2:00 am
Giving such power over executive functions to Congress violates the fundamental principle expressed by Montesquieu upon which the theory of separated powers rests: “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 apprehension may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 12:01 pm
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]
27 Apr 2012, 9:30 pm
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]
10 Apr 2012, 12:11 pm
Swaziland, a Southern African country, has proposed a law that will make it illegal to criticize its monarch on social media. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 1:00 am
As Thomas Penn shows us so vividly in "Winter King," the first Tudor monarch is as fascinating as his son and his life story nearly as full of drama and incident.The full review is here. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 5:21 am
In the last two years, Royal Caribbean cruise ships, the Oasis of the Seas (twice), Allure of the Seas, Monarch of the Seas and Navigator of the Seas, have intercepted Cuban rafters five times: Royal Caribbean Intercepts Cuban Immigrants Allure of the Seas "Rescues" Migrants Fleeing Cuba Happy Fourth of July - Enjoy Your Freedom Christmas Dreams in Miami of Cuban Rafters Crushed By Cruise Ship "Rescues" … [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 8:40 am
After I used the word "sacred" to characterize the way Americans think of the Constitution, Meade expressed suspicion about regarding worldly things as religious, and I agreed, noting the way we Americans have come up with our own alternative to ancient ideas about monarchs embodying God's will. 3. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 1:22 am
In a country increasingly obsessed by class and status (and also notions of a glorious lost past ruled by monarchs), I understand why the writers thought it would be appealing to feature a noble Korean prince. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 5:26 pm
Which cruise ship was this (some speculate the Liberty of the Seas or the Monarch of the Seas)? [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 12:12 am
Yet the methodology and conclusions of War Powers have been subjected to comprehensive and devastating criticism, addressing issues ranging from selective use of evidence to fundamentally misunderstanding the Framers’ rejection of monarchical prerogatives in constructing the executive power. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 3:00 am
Actors sharing a 'republican' sensibility can agree with one another on some issues--the tyranny of monarchical governments--but disagree with one another on a range of others. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 2:52 am
This jurisdiction was originally part of the Royal Prerogative, deriving from power and duty, based upon the Monarch’s conscience, to intervene in order to protect the best interests of his subjects in circumstances where those individuals could not make decisions for themselves.” Full story (PDF) No. 5 Chambers, 1st March 2012 Source: www.no5.com [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 2:41 pm
If the minor prophets of the Old Testament have a common message, it is their repetitive denunciation of the lust for power, the oppression of poor by the rich, and the ways in which insiders take advantage of outsiders. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 7:00 am
The Abbey is steeped in history as it has been used for royal coronations since 1066 and is the final resting place for seventeen monarchs. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 5:32 pm
Whig history is bad not because its unscientific, but because it is whiggish, and whiggery is bad because it is inconsistent with X, where X is a point of view expressible only in terms that are lofty, inpenetrable and perfectly opaque, and so, like absolute monarchs, beyond criticism by the mere likes of us. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 1:16 pm
” So, too, the identification of national “liberty” with republicanism in the book (or at least with anti-monarchicalism) explains what otherwise would be a striking oxymoron. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 10:52 am
” In a sense, the conventional assumption as to the limits of the President’s role – as approximating that of the British Monarch in many respects – is incongruous in view of the electoral legitimacy they incarnate. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:43 am
I would say much the same thing about David’s hypothetical of a female monarch who wishes to be labeled a “king” rather than a “queen. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 11:22 am
An examination of the early-modern law of treason shows that Bracton had an important role in changing the concept of treason from a crime against the monarch to something like the much broader classical crimen laesae maiestatis. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 6:27 am
You arrive in Bangkok only to find that there are police waiting for you at the gate, so you are arrested because Twitter has allowed the publication of insults against the Thai monarch in breach of its notoriously harsh lèse majesté laws. [read post]
