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3 Feb 2008, 9:00 pm
Anyway, do you think that anti-monarchical/dynastic tendencies are at all on the minds of democratic voters and independents? [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 6:55 am
Items of particular interest include late medieval manuscripts and documents relating to the Spanish Inquisition as well as various decrees and statutes from Spanish monarchs and officials. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 6:36 pm
(Many anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution focused their criticisms on this power, which they rightly associated with monarchical power in effect to suspend the operation of ordinary law with regard to royal favorites.) [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 1:00 am
”Read on here.Also reviewed Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch (Random House), Sally Bedell Smith (here), and God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Cullen Murphy (here).A new issue of the New York Review of Books is out. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 2:35 am
The good news is that they won't be required to do this if the passenger happens to be a Monarch or Head of State. [read post]
13 Aug 2024, 6:00 am
Under the best of circumstances, one treads lightly when attempting to give a monarch bad news, and without a system of checks and balances on Gustavus Adolphus’s power, blaming him for the design faults of the Vasa was never an option. [read post]
14 Jul 2024, 10:01 pm
This small copy of the Magna Carta, circa 1300, is embellished with color and vivid illustrations; Harvard Law School Library Significantly, this was the first time a ruling monarch had been forcibly persuaded to renounce a great deal of his authority. [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 8:33 am
The year 2019 is ending with the great rifts--opened in 2016, exposed in 2017, and acquiring a greater urgency and revealing the power of its consequences in 2018--now exposed. [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 6:59 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)The year 2018 is ending with the great rifts opened in 2016, and exposed in 2017, now acquiring a greater urgency and show and revealing the power of its consequences. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
Weak monarchs – or worse, haughty ones (Tarquinus Superbus) – either generate decay of the monarchy or inspire its overthrow. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 6:00 am
Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
20 May 2019, 10:55 am
The extent to which federal obstruction of justice statutes apply to the president, especially when concerning actions facially within the office’s powers under Article II, has been hotly contested at least since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am
English monarchs sometimes abused their prerogative to pardon, and therefore the American framers were well aware of both the benefits and risks of a broad pardon power. [read post]
9 May 2019, 12:09 am
Apart from death by stoning for sexual offenses, the law also allows for amputation of limbs for theft and whipping for other violations.In a televised May 5 speech, the 72-year-old monarch appeared to step back from those measures, declaring first that Brunei would ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture and that it would not enforce the death penalty on those convicted under new religious laws. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 11:43 am
They also indicate that they take steps to ensure that disclosures of metadata are not made to governments with poor human rights records, and are not made when such disclosure would be used to prosecute individuals for speech crimes (for example, the crime of insulting a monarch). [read post]
7 Mar 2015, 10:05 am
If we go back far enough in history, the blessing of the Catholic Church might have been a far greater and more desirable source of legitimation for a monarch. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 8:37 am
Similar to other Gulf state funds, the QIA has modest amount of overall transparency while the maintenance of the fund is securely held by the monarch. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 7:58 am
The religious branch of the Islamist Justice and Development Party leading the government denounced the partial normalization of ties, while the party’s leadership was less critical and more deferential to the monarch’s decision. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 5:46 pm
The second premise is that the SWFs’ governance is intimately related to accountability, that – according to Gelpren reconstruction (Gelpren 2011) – can be differentiated between: public internal accountability (SWFs answer to elected officials or to the monarch); private internal accountability (SWFs answer to shareholders, creditors, stakeholders); public external accountability (a duty to adhere to international norms); and private… [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 7:30 am
The drafters might have been current rulers (monarchs or emperors), or leaders of resistance movements, or military men seeking power, but they were rarely women (p. 270). [read post]
