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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]
19 May 2011, 2:36 am
It is perhaps ironic, that on a week when two women made speeches that represented for many the culmination of a long and painful process of peace-making on this island, others were being prevented from expressing their speech through posters and protests close to Dublin Castle where a state banquet was held to honour the first ever state visit of a British Monarch to the Republic of Ireland. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 1:24 pm
The President’s Nobel Prize Speech was no apology tour, no bow to a foreign monarch. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 12:05 am
The Framers feared both Caesars-- military officials who bully republican forces and ultimately take over civilian government-- and monarchs-- who sit at the head of civilian government and use their power over the military to disregard legislative and judicial controls.In order to secure civilian control of the military, the civilian authority that controls the military must *itself* be subject to legal controls by the other branches; otherwise it will be tempted to use its control over… [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 2:14 pm
To be clear: Charles V (aka Carlos V) was the monarch in power over the realm comprising both of the lands that today are Belgium and Mexico. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 1:36 pm
He then in true monarch form, gives Alwyn zero responsibility, zero direction and zero autonomy. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:00 am
The long-lasting vitality of these regional law codes was in part a result of the political strength of local nobility in relation to the monarchs. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 1:31 pm
“Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine by which the sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution…,” In a country where no monarch has ruled in all of history and in these modern times, sovereign immunity has become a rule for another time; an antiquated legal concept whose time should have come and gone long ago. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 11:25 pm
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings;How some have been deposed; some slain in war,Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;All murder'd: for within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a… [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 12:59 pm
While the tradition surrounding a State Opening of Parliament by the monarch can be traced back to the sixteenth century, the current ceremony dates from 1852. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 9:23 pm
Madison apparently believed that Congress should be able to reverse state laws that contradicted federal efforts, similar to the role of Parliament in the Privy Council (a monarchical authority that reviewed colonial legislative and judicial acts), an idea LaCroix refers to as “Madison’s negative” or the “federal negative. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 9:07 pm
Petitioners also challenged EPA’s decision based on threats to the environment and imperiled species, such as the Monarch butterfly. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 7:52 am
But the complaint makes for good reading, especially when the plaintiffs allege “[h]aving thrown off one monarch (i.e., George III, the King of England), the framers of the American Constitution understood the importance of guaranteeing to its citizens that they be governed by state governments (such as New York) in the form of a republic…. [read post]
18 Dec 2021, 8:53 am
Talleyrand made the statement above to Napoleon Bonaparte to reproach Napoleon for his treachery in tricking King Charles IV and Queen Marie Luisa, the Bourbon monarchs of Spain, to abdicate their thrones in favor of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 2:25 pm
One would certainly not hope that the Monegasque reigning monarch’s involvement in the case would suffice for meeting that threshold. [read post]
23 Jul 2008, 2:43 pm
Sunstein in essence argued for the decision in Al-Marri, which treats the President as an absolute monarch in time of war. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 6:08 am
Give the monarch an emotional enema. [read post]
15 Sep 2024, 12:59 am
Justin Welby is due to retire on 6 January 2026, although where there are special circumstances which make it desirable that he should continue in that office after that date, the Monarch may authorise the continuance in office for up to one year. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 4:00 am
Whereas acclamation of the new king was traditionally reserved until after the previous king’s death—think of the common monarchic acclamation, “the king is dead, long live the king”—a Law of Bay‘a (best translated here as “succession”) decreed by King ‘Abdallah in 2006 puts his designated successor to a committee vote. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 9:30 am
Dear Dorf on Law Readers: In light of the momentous transformations in the UK over the past week or so -- the forced departure of a privileged buffoon who had somehow become Prime Minister, quickly followed by the death of a ceremonial monarch -- it seems apt to republish a column that I wrote almost three years ago, then titled "Downton Economics (psst, it’s not capitalism!). [read post]
