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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]
22 Oct 2011, 3:35 pm
Retribution—whether based on real orimagined underlying crimes—was no doubt the primary motivation for the gruesomeexecutions conducted by the English monarchs in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, for the scourge of lynchings in the South during the nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries, and for sentences now being imposed on our mostvicious killers. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 5:26 pm
See Monarch Knitting Mach. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 8:02 am
Wikipedia includes a highly illuminating section on the concept of “Beamte” (plural of Beamter): The conceptual foundation of Beamte is to be found in the “enlightened rule” of monarchs practised in 18th-century Prussia and other German states. [read post]
1 May 2016, 7:55 am
In an Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times on April 29, 2016, Fordham University law professor and author of “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United,” Zephyr Teachout, wrote that the legal principles of bribery “date from England’s Statute of Westminster of 1275, which said no officer of the king should take payment for his public duties except what was owed by the monarch. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 12:25 pm
A corporation could only be created in one of four ways, namely a) by the common law (the prime example of this was the king; the British monarch is still today a corporation sole); b) by the authority of parliament; c) by royal charter, and d) by prescription or custom. ((1612) 10 Co. [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 12:11 pm
Similarly, history is full of royal pretenders and alleged monarchs. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 7:26 am
Plan of Iguala (1821) This document established the Mexican monarchical system that resulted in the creation of the First Mexican Empire under Emperor Agustín de Iturbide. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 7:18 am
LOMAP, along with the Massachusetts Bar Association, Catuogno Court Reporting, Peritus Security Partners and Whitestone Marketing Group, among others, is sponsoring the Massachusetts Data Privacy Conference, a free, comprehensive, day-long program to take place January 27, 2010 at the Sheraton Monarch Hotel in Springfield. [read post]
14 May 2007, 10:46 am
Our founders had the revolutionary idea that a nation should be governed by its people and not by monarchs or the autocratic elite. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 4:06 pm
Responding to concerns that the existing provision did not explicitly condemn monarchical government, Randolph moved (and was seconded by Madison) to insert language that “no State be at liberty to form any other than a Republican [Government]. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:18 am
The history of Europe used to be the story of mad kings; now we have so few monarchs, our legislators, administrators and judiciary have to take it in turns to be mad ... [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 12:59 am
Similarly, history is full of royal pretenders and alleged monarchs. [read post]
24 Sep 2019, 2:22 pm
” [para.48] The Court explains, that a decision to prorogue Parliament (or to advise the monarch to prorogue Parliament) will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature and as the body responsible for the supervision of the executive. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 11:58 am
In light of what 1776 was all about, patriotic Americans should not criticize the American President for insufficient bowing to the British monarch. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 10:00 am
New York, NY (June 28, 2010) - The visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Lower Manhattan is only days away, and the Alliance for Downtown New York has fashioned a Top 10 to-do list for the royal monarch to do whilst in town. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 7:51 am
Portia counsels otherwise.The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of… [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 5:01 am
Adams had not yet … interfered, as president of the United States, to influence the decisions of a court of justice—a stretch of authority which the monarch of Great Britain would have shrunk from—an interference without precedent, against law and against mercy. [read post]
8 May 2013, 2:04 am
Vegetable garden at Montecello – it took a village, or at least a very large contingent of slaves, to maintain Another big issue Meacham elides over is the hypocritical way in which Jefferson became apoplectic over what he considered the “monarchical” tendencies of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and other Federalists. [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]
