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5 Apr 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This quaint oxymoronic phrase recognises that while political parties currently out of government constitute an opposition to ministers, their loyalty to the democratic state (embodied, in the UK, by the monarch) must be presumed. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 12:52 pm by Sandy Levinson
 What Black is in fact suggesting, without quite saying so, is that we have substituted the "chief executive" for the British Monarch, not only in terms of certain powers (such as pardoning) , but also, as already suggested, as the proper recipient for emotional cathexis. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 11:30 am by Tamara Cofman Wittes
 After Brotherhood political parties won elections in Egypt and Tunisia (pluralities, not majorities, in both places), these governments came to understand the Brotherhood as an existential threat: a model of governance that challenged their own authoritarian, monarchical Islamism with populist Islamism rooted in the democratic process (not civil liberties, but the monarchies don’t care much about civil liberties either). [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 10:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In the southern division: Ramsey 1 Hardhitters; Ramsey 2 Monarchs; Darrington Devils; Retrieve Snippers; Ramsey Builders; and the Clemens Cats. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 1:19 pm
 Unlike hereditary monarchs or papal clerics, his mandate does not last forever. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 11:00 pm
And Sir Thomas More remains one of my great heroes precisely because he refused to yield up to the demands of his monarch his faithfulness to his church.Luther, though, is a different story. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 10:12 am by Tamar Herzog
If the literature tended to affirm that there were no citizens in monarchical territories, my wish was to showcase their importance. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 7:10 am
 (ii) Formal ratification:  Once the Order on Privileges & Immunities is passed (see more below), the final stage is that Government uses its powers derived from the Monarch (primarily exercised by the PM and Foreign Sectary) to deposit the final letter/instruments of ratification. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 9:59 am
All Cohen says is that the toothbrush mustache was "a bit of modern efficiency," replacing the old style mustache, which paralleled the way "the old, monarchical world... was about to be crushed by the rising tide of assembly-line America." [read post]
1 May 2020, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
Social-contract theory was tailor-made to rebut monarchical claims of divine right, but it offered little help when facing a conflict over how to define the polity. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 4:23 pm by Buce
Hyde was, after his manner, a  remarkable historian, but he was more: through his daughter, he was the grandfather of two monarchs. [read post]
24 May 2018, 5:00 am by Tamara Cofman Wittes
After the people-power uprisings of the Arab Spring were hijacked by violence in Syria, Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen; after Egypt’s popular overthrow of the Mubarak regime was hijacked first by an elected president who betrayed democratic principles, then by a military coup and a renewed dictatorship; after monarchs and militias have dominated and driven the region’s trajectory for more than half a decade—after all this, a relatively peaceful and relatively open election is… [read post]
8 May 2017, 6:41 am
Did they seek normal and get a lofty monarch? [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 4:35 am by Garrett Hinck
In the Foreign Policy Essay, Kristin Smith Diwan argued that policymakers should discard their assumptions about the behavior of Gulf leaders because of a sea change in attitudes among a new generation of monarchs. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 12:56 pm by Christine Corcos
Partially different movements followed in sculpture, which asserted itself in the 19th century as a monumental representation of political power in statues of monarchs and emperors, but also as an exaltation of the rights of freedom to be made present and visible in the urban spaces of the new cities. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 7:50 am by Ilya Somin
Madison and the other drafters of the Constitution knew that the history of war was a history of making it about the executive, the king, the monarch, the sultan, the emperor. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 10:45 am by Ilya Somin
  As John Stuart Mill feared, public education is often used to indoctrinate students in whatever ideology "pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation." [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 4:02 pm by Tamar Herzog
The advent of the modern state and stronger monarchical orders (as well as the opposition they generated), intensified these struggles. [read post]