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19 Mar 2010, 10:31 pm by The Complex Litigator
 Believing that their duly elected representatives would espouse their will, they now watch helplessly as the the cornerstone of American democracy, the Constitution, is disregarded with a contempt worth of monarchs, not elected officials accountable to the people. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 12:56 pm by Asaph Abrams
Cakes feature often in popular metaphors and similies and they're also delicious.Chattels sell like hot cakes and clueless monarchs suggest the hungry substitute 'em for bread. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 3:10 pm by NL
Not for being a hereditary monarch - that is a little outside our remit - but for the actions of her servants, vassals, minions and apparatchiks at the Crown Estates office. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 3:10 pm by NL
Not for being a hereditary monarch - that is a little outside our remit - but for the actions of her servants, vassals, minions and apparatchiks at the Crown Estates office. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 1:20 pm by Tom Smith
 This was one of the things the Founders were worried about -- not just corrupt monarchs, but ambitious, rationalizing ones. [read post]
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 2:32 am
In England and Wales a competition is held to select the next batch of Queen's Counsel, barristers whose seniority and expertise is recognised and who become entitled to bear the letters "QC" ("KC" when the reigning monarch is a King) after their names. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 11:24 pm
Monarch Knitting Mach. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 11:03 am by Katherine Gundersen
However, the veto is judicially reviewable, which provides some safeguard against its casual use.The new 20 year rule will be phased in over 10 years by doubling the volume of old government records released each year.However, a new absolute exemption, which will protect information about the monarch, the heir and second in line to the throne for 20 years and then, if the individual concerned is still alive, until 5 years after their death. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 10:58 am
The French Foreign Minister's refusal of an invitation to join Spain in attacking Portugal, about which Joel writes:A preemptive war would 'soil oneself with a notorious injustice, which would be invincibly repugnant to the feelings and principles of the two monarchs.' ... [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 3:20 am by charonqc
As to count 2 – ‘absolute monarch’: I could not agree more. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 9:41 pm by David Kopel
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]
3 Feb 2010, 6:53 am by Daniel Shaviro
I believe France then simply renounced the monarchical debts, counting on the change in regime to avoid being blamed for this, and established more well-functioning finances, but obviously at a high price.Governments today have well-established borrowing systems like eighteenth century England, but they don’t have a credible basis for suggesting that expenditures will at some point drop. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 5:00 am by Beck, et al.
As we said last week, because it’s a Dechert case, we can’t comment directly on Clark v. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 5:29 pm
We get good, straightforward narrative--from the beginning, Shakespeare seems to know how to put together a scene--and, in lieu of plot a kind of theme (a weak monarch leads to disorder). [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 11:05 am by Mitch Jackson
To help with relief efforts in Haiti, Monarch Beach Sunrise Rotary Club is going to support the established and on the ground “Shelter Box” program. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 6:13 am by Andis Kaulins
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, would retain their individuality and sovereignty in their own elected monarch, but they would merge their political systems for their mutual economic (i.e. financial), social and military benefit. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 12:59 am by seattleulawlibrary
In January of 1893, a group of American sugar planters, led by Sanford Ballard Dole, deposed the reigning Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani. [read post]