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26 Nov 2014, 11:36 am by Benjamin Wittes
But it is lawless, monarchical, and a violation of the Take Care Clause for the president to say, “I’m really not all that concerned about commercial use of the Swiss coat of arms, so my administration won’t be spending its energy bringing such cases. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 4:00 am by Malcolm Mercer
With this thought in mind, Justice Binnie’s statement in Strother [7] takes on new meaning: … Monarch was dealing with professional advisors, not used car salesmen or pawnbrokers whom the public may expect to operate on the basis of “didn’t ask, didn’t tell”, and who collectively suffer a corresponding deficit in trust and confidence. [read post]
23 May 2018, 8:12 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
The Upper Skagit Court’s restraint Monday is appreciated in Indian Country. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 12:00 pm by Timothy Sandefur, guest-blogging
Arbitrary power, enforcing its edicts to the injury of the persons and property of its subjects, is not law, whether manifested as the decree of a personal monarch or of an impersonal multitude. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 12:02 am by INFORRM
He argued that in the Von Hannover case the articles concerned a matter of general interest, the illness of reigning monarch of Monaco and the way in which his family dealt with it. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 4:00 am by Administrator
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 4:01 pm by Charon QC
 Through the incompetence of a reigning monarch – I think it was George III who was having a go at misruling at the time – we managed to lose a much prized ‘possession’ and that nation  has gone on to greater things and influence world affairs. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 11:24 pm
Monarch Knitting Mach. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 8:18 pm
That august official, together with the Archbishop of York, went to great lengths to accommodate the desire of the "fledgling Church" to have proper bishops to lead it, and to ensure that it was truly a church founded in the image of the Church of England, if not under its jurisdiction.It was the Archbishops who successfully pushed the legislation through Parliament to enable them to consecrate foreigners as bishops without requiring them to subscribe to the Oath of Supremacy, by which all… [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 6:12 am by Peter J. Louie, Esq.
When I first started doing criminal defense work a decade ago, family and friends would wonder how I could with a clear conscience defend guilty people. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If, for example, a government announced that it was going to allow all of its citizens to retire early and then give them pensions fit for monarchs, no investors in the world would be willing to put their money into that country. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 6:52 pm
Societies sometimes invoke themselves--democratic social orders, from those of the West to Marxist Leninist regimes, and form monarchies to oligarchies--each in their own way ground their segregation on themselves (the will of the people exercised directly, or through their customs and traditions, or exercised through a monarch or by a vanguard). [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:30 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Even popular fiction provides vivid examples, such as the government advisor Varys in "Game of Thrones," who explained his willingness to serve a series of rulers by saying that he was not being disloyal by supporting a change in monarchs when conscience demanded. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 4:00 pm by Old Fox
linkWe stood in his footsteps in the church in Oxford where he made his final declaration before being led out the back door to be burned at the stake.Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer, detail of an oil painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1545; in the National Portrait …Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, LondonThomas Cranmer,  (born July 2, 1489, Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 21, 1556, Oxford), the first Protestant archbishop of… [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 7:02 am by Shannon Togawa Mercer
” Prerogative Powers are those executive powers held by the Monarch, independent of statutory authority, and exercised by the Prime Minister in some instances, most often in the contexts of treaty-making, war and foreign affairs. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 10:10 am by Katitza Rodriguez
This expansion means that the domestic spying powers can be used to investigate any crime, from cybercrimes like hacking to traditional non-cybercrime offenses like drug trafficking—even speech crimes in some jurisdictions, such as insulting a monarch—as long as there's digital evidence involved. [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 5:04 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Those must be respected by the government (whether in the form of a monarch or representative democracy (parliamentary or otherwise)) and enforced through the judiciary that served to protect the king’s peace (later social stability and harmony). [read post]