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1 Nov 2011, 7:39 am
As I’m sure you’re aware, the more important ban on monarchs themselves practising Catholicism (and thus conflicting with their role as head of the Church of England) remains. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 4:07 am
And maybe it was, but Jefferson also felt that the whole idea of having the Executive appear to address the Legislature in this manner was just a little too monarchical for what we still believed at the time was a republic. [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 10:00 am
As a result, many insurance company investors were not inclined to insure the risk of fire: Of all the fire companies organized in New York, or other states, the one called the ‘Globe,’ with a capital of one million, was in its day and generation, the monarch. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 10:54 am
In 1787, as the framers discussed the Articles of Confederation, South Carolina delegate George Pinckney introduced a proposal to give the U.S. president the same complete pardon power enjoyed by English monarchs with the exception of impeachment. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 7:41 am
In civil law systems, a legislator (formerly often a monarch, but nowadays often a parliament) drafts a law and writes the law into the code. [read post]
23 May 2024, 7:15 am
Even though it was still a monarchy, the monarch derived his authority to rule from the constitution. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 1:15 am
However, to allow a tortured reading of a 200-year-old statute to support unfettered sweeping power across the entire nation that supersedes state authority, would allow a president to resemble a monarch or dictator, and not a leader of a system with checks and balances. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 4:28 pm
Of course, we also heard all the stories about dynasties, their overthrow, rivals killing deposed rulers, rumors about loves gained and lost, besotted monarchs and crown princes, and a wily queen or two. [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 7:02 pm
Such contempt for the people's representatives verges on monarchical pretension.The administration's politics of panic diverts attention from pressing questions of social justice and environmental survival. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 5:26 am
I’m sure it would have, back when the monarch could do whatever he or she wanted, but things are different now. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 11:58 am
Through the whiff of horse dung and open sewers, you can tell we are back in the days of Queen Anne and not solely because the lawfulness of the catholicity of a Monarch’s spouse was an issue deemed worth revisiting.The Observer noted that a debate in the Lords on the Welfare Reform Bill gave rise to the prospect of the return of the window tax. [read post]
31 May 2010, 8:53 am
” Monarch Life Ins. [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]
3 Mar 2022, 12:53 pm
Gorsuch observed that although English monarchs “may have enjoyed the kind of latitude the government sought,” the “Constitution did not create a President in the King’s image but envisioned an executive regularly checked and balanced by other authorities. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
Surely no one needs me to remind them of the terrors of the Tower of London, where the wrong believers were put to death by one monarch after another (bouncing back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism) or of the Islamic State now in operation (who just this week killed French journalists who dared to criticize their religion)? [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
In 1945, Robinson joined the Negro League Kansas City Monarchs. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:03 am
Suing in a Sealand court would have been pointless given that the monarch was also the head of the judicary. [read post]
16 Sep 2023, 11:43 pm
“This is a unique happening which should not be missed by anyone interested in the life and works of Gerald of Wales, Gerallt Gymro, or in the turbulent transition years of the 12th century, when Wales was moving from a country led by its native Princes to one dominated by English and Norman monarchs”. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 1:55 pm
At its founding, the country had just escaped a system that concentrated vast governmental power in a single person—the monarch. [read post]
12 Jan 2020, 12:41 pm
He warned that "[a] general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. [read post]
