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2 Dec 2010, 3:50 am by Adam Wagner
Whereas just over four centuries ago the monarch had absolute power, she now has practically none. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 6:08 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Give the monarch an emotional enema. [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 3:30 am by Adam Wagner
 The intention behind the 1688 Act, which is still in force, was to establish rights seen as essential to restricting the power of the monarch, and bolstering the power and independence of Parliament (see our previous post). [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 9:23 pm by Nicole Huberfeld
The heart of the book is the discussion of James Madison’s ideas regarding the need for the national legislature to negate state laws in order to protect the coherence and power of the national government. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 11:00 pm by Adam Wagner
The courts, which in the seventeenth century were within the power of the monarch, were prevented from interfering with the proceedings of Parliament. [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:45 am by Karen Beck
" Cowell seemed to favor an absolute monarch who was above the common law. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 3:37 am
Prior to the Statute of Anne, the privilege to publish was invested by the monarch in just a handful of companies who had an exclusive monopoly on all publication. [read post]
7 Nov 2009, 1:48 pm
James Palace, is still legally available for use as a Catholic church by any member of the Royal Family that should desire to do so, despite the 1701 Act of Settlement that bars a British monarch from being a member of the Catholic Church or marrying a Catholic. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 12:01 am
Contrast Norton’s career with those of his rival claimants: James Buchanan and later Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 10:44 am
(Plymouth, MA; James Baker, President) 21 Street, Inc. [read post]
2 May 2009, 7:51 am
Most notably, public school students read from the King James Bible, a translation which the Catholic Church did not recognize. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 5:28 am
Update: The suspect, James Chester Blanning, Jr., on parole for racketeering, has committed suicide. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 12:59 am
  Similarly, history is full of royal pretenders and alleged monarchs. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 2:20 pm
UK Online Senior Editor Chris Russell did just that and found King Arthur Uther Pendragon a thoroughly decent monarch. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 4:39 pm
It also violates the very reason the founders set up our system of government as they did: having seen citizens bullied by a monarch’s soldiers, the founders were terrified of exactly this kind of concentration of militias’ power over American people in the hands of an oppressive executive or faction. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 3:07 am
While not discounting the more personal motives of the monarchs, Dent argues that the executive branch, such as it was, also tried to use patents to further the interests of the English nation:In the times of Elizabeth and James patents may be seen as specific practices that furthered, quite deliberately, the policy goals of the elite. [read post]