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15 Mar 2023, 5:20 pm
Old-school monarchs didn’t enjoy the level of protection from public abuse Federalist Society judges claim to be entitled to. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 4:00 am
Wikipedia has a handy table of regnal years of British monarchs. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 7:11 am
Speaking of which, it's allegedly springtime (but not in Maine today) and pitchers and catchers are reporting and soon the sounds of a ball thwacking into a catcher's mitt or a crack of the bat will be echoing across the land, letting us know, much like the return of the Monarch butterflies 🦋, and a spring Robin and Bluejay, that all is right with the world. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 11:29 am
It was a vast departure from American tradition, which views the State of the Union far more like the monarch’s speech in the U.K.... [read post]
29 Jan 2023, 4:41 pm
In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince.... [read post]
29 Jan 2023, 4:40 am
As a Royal Peculiar, the chapel is under the Monarch’s control, who exercises it via the Lord Great Chamberlain whose Secretary, Black Rod, has responsibility for managing its use. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 5:10 pm
The fact is when Pelosi, much like the monarch Washington feared becoming, made her unilateral decision to reject the appointments of Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the Jan. 6 committee, she broke, perhaps irretrievably, the long-standing tradition that the minority party chooses its own members for standing and select committees. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable on Federation and Secession, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022—a year-long series gathering scholars from diverse disciplines and viewpoints to reflect on Sandy Levinson’s influential work in constitutional law. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 4:15 am
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the death of the UK’s longest reigning monarch are among the things for which the year will be remembered. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 4:15 am
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the death of the UK’s longest reigning monarch are among the things for which the year will be remembered. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Gore, then, is that it further entrenches the monarch-like status of the United States Supreme Court as ‘ultimate constitutional interpreter,’ with a monarch-like royal prerogative to ignore ordinary legal restraints when necessary to protect the public good. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 3:38 am
When one looks back at the year 2022, it’ll be safe to say this year was remembered as one where we put aside our collective differences, came together for the betterment of humanity, and took a collective leap forward as a species. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 6:00 am
She saw the centralized, powerful government outlined in the new constitution as a return to the monarchical rule that she and other revolutionaries had resisted during the Revolution (Zagarri, p. 122). [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 1:19 pm
This oath is required by section 128 of the CA, 1867: 128 Every Member … of a Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly of any Province shall before taking his Seat therein take and subscribe before the Lieutenant Governor of the Province or some Person authorized by him, the Oath of Allegiance contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Act;… This is a constitutional provision, which applies to members of the Senate and the House of Commons, reflects the monarch’s… [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 5:30 am
Old palace of Drottningholm, the home of many of Sweden’s monarchs near Stockholm, Sweden. 1905. [read post]
11 Dec 2022, 1:22 am
” Removals from the grave Our post Evidence from the grave – III considered aspects of exhumation for the purpose of examining the remains of monarchs and mass murderers, and for medical research. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 6:06 am
“It can no longer be doubted that as a matter of general customary international law a head of state will personally be liable to be called to account if there is sufficient evidence that he authorised or perpetrated such serious international crimes. [read post]
Alberta legislature introduces bill which would allow provincial governments to override federal law
30 Nov 2022, 9:00 am
Provisions of this sort are typically called “Henry VIII clauses,” after the English monarch who sought to circumvent his parliament by legislating directly through royal proclamation. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 3:28 am
I can only conclude that the gangsters' aim is improving.Anyway, by the end of the "summit," the ice cream monarch seemed relieved, as if something had been accomplished. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 10:07 am
During a period of less than four years between 2009 and 2013, at least thirteen crew members went over the rails of Royal Caribbean (and subsidiary Celebrity) cruise ships, including the Majesty of the Seas, Monarch of the Seas (twice), Radiance of the Seas, Explorer of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas, Grandeur of the Seas, Celebrity Constellation, Celebrity Eclipse, Celebrity Summit, and Serenade of the Seas (two). [read post]
