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31 Dec 2012, 5:33 am
In seeking independence from a monarch, we vowed to create and sustain fair laws for all people, making this promise real with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 7:30 pm
Monarch Knitting Mach. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 5:10 pm
As political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels put it in another important new book on political ignorance, “the ideal of popular sovereignty plays the same role in contemporary democratic ideology that the divine right of kings played in the monarchical era. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 6:52 pm
In this respect, it differs from medieval councils, which served at the pleasure of monarchs and gave their advice to them privately.But the meaning of democracy in the modern world is hardly exhausted by the procedural structures of government. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am
The constitutional Framers were careful to restrict many traditional monarchical powers. [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 5:30 am
Threatening to fire the attorney general for, in essence, doing exactly what was required in this instance is nothing less than an assault on law and an assertion of monarchical power. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 1:57 pm
With the kaiser’s fate in question, however, European monarchs schemed to protect a fellow royal. [read post]
23 May 2010, 12:26 pm
You’ve heard of “monarchs,” right? [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 9:05 pm
For William of Orange to ascend to the throne, he had to marry a Stuart (Mary II) and submit to the English Bill of Rights, thereby becoming the first constitutional monarch as part of the Glorious Revolution. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 5:57 am
The too much is the selling of impeachment as the bulwark against Presidential abuse of power: Henry's objections were numerous, but one of them was that Madison had created a president who could too easily become an absolute monarch or a tyrant. . . . [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 10:50 am
In Federalist 26 Alexander Hamilton wrote: In England, for a long time after the Norman Conquest, the authority of the monarch was almost unlimited. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 7:00 am
They not only fear that Iran is reshaping the political and sectarian landscape of the region, they fear that Iran has designs to completely overturn the present order of their monarchical regimes. [read post]
18 May 2007, 7:57 am
"A monarch unable to pay her bills? [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 5:31 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]
4 Jul 2010, 10:47 am
He couldn’t just do a quick “control-shift-left arrow” and “backspace” and get rid of his mental slip back into his habits as an English lawyer appealing to a judge who would typically be called “My Lord” and ultimately to a monarch before whom he was required to kneel and bow. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 5:28 am
Some people went to evacuation centers set up at schools, but most visitors were holed up in hotels outside the evacuated 16-block area....Witnesses said the evacuation zone stretched from Original Street on the east to Monarch Street on the west, and from Main Street on the north to Cooper Street on the south. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 5:45 am
Or at least it sounds exciting until you find out it’s just the monarch butterfly, which is nice but lives literally everywhere in the United States, as well as Central America and the Caribbean and a number of other places that aren’t Illinois. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 6:35 pm
His insistence on not to become a “monarch” was pivotal for American politics. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
The reason for such a government was to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful – and especially to prevent the president from becoming a monarch like King George III of the English Empire. [read post]
3 May 2022, 4:00 am
Knowledgeable and respected commentators have made the point along the lines that content is no longer king but that the monarch is now the platform, and content has become the kingmaker. [read post]
