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9 Sep 2013, 4:00 am
The UK is in the unusual situation of having an informal constitution whose aim was to bind the monarch, and not Parliament. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
Yet Trump appears to believe that he has been anointed monarch—of the Henry VIII variety, who attacked friend and foe alike, grasped power ruthlessly, repeatedly subjugated women, favored one faith over all, and had a voracious appetite. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:05 pm
He had a generally positive view of England, but this - and the English monarch's decision to use force of arms against the American colonies - soured him on Prime Minister Pitt ("perhaps he seeks to promote freedom and culture - perhaps - but the barbarous slave trade certainly stands higher on his agenda") and on England ("The English nation (gens), viewed as a people (populus), constitute the most valuable link in the entire chain of humanity. [read post]
10 Jul 2011, 8:07 am
Farrell in the New York Times; INDEPENDENCE: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling in the Boston Globe; ABSOLUTE MONARCHS: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich in the New York Times; and WHEN THE WORLD SPOKE FRENCH by Marc Fumaroli, translated by Richard Howard in the New York Times. [read post]
13 May 2015, 11:43 am
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]
3 Feb 2010, 9:41 pm
Those readers who know their English legal history know the stories of the great lawyers during the Tudor and Stuart reigns, who used the law to challenge the abuses of the monarchs. [read post]
24 May 2022, 1:01 am
But it also dissolved the Republic declared in 1918 and required Irish members of parliament to swear allegiance to the British monarch. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 4:42 am
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) April 26, 2020 Now if we’re going to take hereditary monarchs, I’m pleased to report that a good chunk of what is now the U.S. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 3:52 am
They were established at the end of the Second World War when it was apparent that modern states were no less capable of utter brutality than ancient despots or mediaeval monarchs (but were armed with more powerful technology). [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 11:22 am
However, to allow a tortured reading of a 200-year-old statute to allow such unfettered sweeping power to supersede state authority, would allow a president to resemble a monarch or dictator, and not a leader of a system with checks and balances. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 3:24 pm
Benjamin Franklin Bache accused George Washington of incompetence and financial irregularities, and charged the “the blind, bald, crippled, toothless, querulous Adams” with nepotism and monarchical ambition in his newspaper “The Aurora”. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 1:20 pm
A monarch or head of state would be referred to as 'lying in state'. [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]
3 Dec 2007, 1:00 am
This administration was not the first to engage in human rights abuses and it won't be the last (even if no other administration makes the same monarchical claims of executive power). [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 8:17 am
The majority itself accepted that Sentinel was not acting in any way adverse to the interests of Monarch. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 10:02 pm
Monarchical democracy has to have a disempowered monarchy, and if you want accountable government that is going to be inconsistent with monarchy. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 4:59 am
A couple of years ago, for example, Wills was made an honorary barrister (an elite type of British lawyer who specialises in advocacy), for no other reason than because we liked him that day.Happily, despite Britain’s lack of a written constitution, our monarchs have a strong sense of what’s acceptable; on being made a barrister, a bemused Wills made a sweet speech promising not to practise “except for the odd speeding ticket. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 8:45 pm
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1 Sep 2013, 3:30 pm
As John Stuart Mill pointed out in On Liberty, “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 dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind…” Public schools were initially established in the… [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 12:13 pm
This doctrine comes from British law and embodies the idea that the government (or, originally, the monarch) cannot commit a legal wrongdoing. [read post]
