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24 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
Thursday, January 28, 2016 | James Rathz When the Supreme Court interprets the U.S. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 2:55 pm
" As Wilson explains, monarchs and other similar rulers might have a right of sovereign immunity against their "subjects. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 4:39 pm
It also violates the very reason the founders set up our system of government as they did: having seen citizens bullied by a monarch’s soldiers, the founders were terrified of exactly this kind of concentration of militias’ power over American people in the hands of an oppressive executive or faction. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 2:20 pm
UK Online Senior Editor Chris Russell did just that and found King Arthur Uther Pendragon a thoroughly decent monarch. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 2:25 pm
The reign of that monarch has been, accordingly, proverbially disgraceful to his memory. [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]
12 Jul 2010, 9:23 pm
The heart of the book is the discussion of James Madison’s ideas regarding the need for the national legislature to negate state laws in order to protect the coherence and power of the national government. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
He lived through the deprivations imposed upon his men and defended democracy by refusing invitations to become a monarch. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 6:35 pm
James K. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 3:50 pm
His first trip had been rushed, he told the monarchs, but on his next he was sure he could amass "slaves in any number they may order. [read post]
23 May 2024, 7:15 am
James J. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 10:50 am
And this number James II increased to 30,000; who were paid out of his civil list. [read post]
23 May 2010, 12:26 pm
You’ve heard of “monarchs,” right? [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]
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]
6 Oct 2021, 3:31 pm
The English Bill of Rights aimed to rectify the past abuses of monarchs, including the despotic King James II, who was overthrown in 1688 partly because of attempt to disarm the English people and rule via the force of a standing army. [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]
10 Oct 2018, 7:34 am
May a president invoke Article II removal powers to fire senior law enforcement personnel—say, FBI director James Comey—if the sole or overriding purpose is to protect himself or close associates from a solidly predicated criminal investigation? [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 10:37 pm
James Alan Fox, published an article earlier this week which contains a great deal of unsubstantiated and misleading opinions about crime on cruise ships. [read post]
