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23 Jun 2023, 10:03 am
” Alito compared Kavanaugh’s “conception of Presidential authority” to “the powers that English monarchs claimed prior to the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, namely, the power to suspend the operation of existing statutes, and to grant dispensations from compliance with statutes. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm
A description from the Press:We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-making than previously acknowledged. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 1:57 pm
On June 6, 1523, Gustav Eriksson Vasa was elected king of Sweden at the assembly (riksmötet) in Strängsnäs, officially uniting Sweden under one king and ending forever the Kalmar Union that tied Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (including Finland) together under one monarch. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 5:59 pm
He warned that "[a] general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation. [read post]
26 May 2023, 5:22 am
Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a Minister in fargone years will not prevent our children from being one day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes. [read post]
18 May 2023, 10:41 am
by Neil H. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:00 am
The long-lasting vitality of these regional law codes was in part a result of the political strength of local nobility in relation to the monarchs. [read post]
8 May 2023, 5:31 am
And he might have understood that even an absolute monarch still depends on his people and so must not only heed their concerns but also do something about them. [read post]
8 May 2023, 4:20 am
How does a democratic system with a figurehead hereditary monarch compare with a republic? [read post]
7 May 2023, 11:14 am
Largely built in the 14th century by the Christian monarch, Pedro (known as “the Cruel” or “the Just,” depending on who you ask), relying on craftsman imported from Granada, the Alcázar embodies and reflects a comprehensively Moorish style. [read post]
6 May 2023, 7:50 am
King Charles III is the first new British monarch in 70 years. [read post]
5 May 2023, 5:34 am
Robert Hazell and Bob Morris are the authors of two reports published by the UCL Constitution Unit on 23 May that look forward to the Accession and Coronation of the next monarch. [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:30 pm
Participants will be encouraged to explore the theme by reflecting on dividing lines drawn in the history of the law, and on who, or what, is within and without them.Insiders, for example, may be lawyers, judges, parliamentarians, monarchs, and others with the power to influence law and its enforcement. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 12:37 am
Quick links Anand Menon & Robert Hazell, Constitution Unit, UCL: The British Monarchy: on “the nature of the UK’s constitutional monarchy and where it sits in our uncodified constitution; the rituals that we will witness on 6 May; and the way the monarchy has evolved, and the place it now occupies in the everyday life of the UK and of the 14 ‘realms’ where the British monarch remains head of state”. [read post]
23 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
”“So, even though,” as Kirchmeier notes, “Ginsburg declared to an audience in 2017, ‘If I were a queen, there would be no death penalty,’ she approached the death penalty not as a monarch, but as a jurist, carefully carving away with a scalpel to expose the problems she saw with America’s system of executing people. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 1:13 am
Specifically, that will mean, for example, governments accepting the duty expressed in the 1953 Coronation Oath in which the monarch pledged to ‘cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all [her] judgements’. [read post]
2 Apr 2023, 7:49 pm
Presidents have never been monarchs. [read post]
2 Apr 2023, 7:49 pm
Presidents have never been monarchs. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 10:56 am
Presidents have never been monarchs. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 1:01 am
On this day in history, George Washington wrote to James Madison about the upcoming Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in which he notes: I am fully of opinion that those who lean to a Monarchical governmt have either not consulted the public mind, or that they live in a region where the levelling principles in which they were bred, being entirely irradicated, is much more productive of Monarchical ideas than are to be found in the Southern States, where from the habitual… [read post]
