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23 Sep 2019, 6:57 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Rejecting Trump's arguments that he cannot be forced to give deposition testimony, Justice Gonzalez opens her analysis this way:More than 200 years ago our founders sought to escape an oppressive, tyrannical governance in which absolute power vested with a monarch. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 9:42 am by Eugene Volokh
This does strongly suggest, I think, that the Constitution’s provision that states should have a “republican form of government” is quite consistent with states having direct democracy — “republican” here was likely used to mean “not monarchical or despotic” (plus perhaps a few related elements), rather than “not including direct citizen lawmaking. [read post]
30 Dec 2019, 6:06 am
It is simply an unfounded assertion that the president has what amount to monarchical powers. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 8:28 am
Emperor Frederick was one of history’s great ornithologists, and perhaps the most humane, enlightened European monarch of the Middle Ages. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 8:15 am by Eugene Volokh
Likewise, James Wilson, one of the main drafters of the Constitution and one of the first Supreme Court justices, defended the Constitution in 1787 by speaking of the three forms of government being the "monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical," and said that in a democracy the sovereign power is "inherent in the people, and is either exercised by themselves or by their representatives. [read post]
1 May 2013, 9:09 am
In reference to a thing, it means: "befitting a monarch; sumptuous, fine, beautiful, noble, excellent." [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 3:11 pm by Tamar Herzog
Distinctions only emerged over time because the English monarchs turned to use juries rather than inquisitorial processes and employed the services of non-university-trained individuals. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 4:30 pm by Jim Walker
 According to a complaint filed in Orlando federal court, authorities were inspecting cruise passengers onboard Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas cruise ship on December 10, 2012, when they discovered that the laptop computer of cruise passenger Gary Lee Reed, of Blackfoot Idaho, had around 1,162 images and videos depicting child pornography. [read post]
2 Jul 2016, 2:42 pm by David Kopel
” The point of the title was that the law precedes the king; the monarch must obey the law. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Feaver, Michele Flournoy
Thankfully, the United States does not have an absolute monarch who can muse, “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest? [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 5:00 am
The Trust is the biggest landowner in KwaZulu-Natal and the Zulu monarch Goodwill Zwelithini is the sole trustee. [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]
15 Apr 2016, 12:46 pm by Bruce Riedel
That was a challenge to the essence of the Gulf monarchs’ existence. [read post]
10 May 2018, 7:05 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]
17 Mar 2022, 12:59 pm
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]
3 Nov 2016, 5:01 am
 The Crown prerogative is the vestige of the powers of the monarch, but now exercised by ministers. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 3:40 am
Third-Party Uses Bring TTAB Reversal of ACCURATE ROOFING Section 2(d) RefusalTTAB Test: Is MONARCH ROASTING Confusable With LA MONARCA BAKERY & CAFE? [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 7:35 am
Gradually, Greenland was opened up to Danish merchants, and closed to those from other countries.When the union between the crowns of Denmark and Norway was dissolved in 1814, the Treaty of Kiel severed Norway's former colonies and left them under the control of the Danish monarch. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:25 am
The combination of chief executive and monarch in the American presidency is not likely to change. [read post]