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27 Feb 2007, 12:53 am
Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Louis Brandeis, unanimously rejected a challenge to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women's right to vote.... 1998, England's Queen Elizabeth II approved of Parliament's plan to end a millennium of male preference so that a monarch's first-born, daughter or son, would have claim to the throne.... 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Biljana Plavsic, former… [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 9:09 pm
Christopher Columbus received one such from Ferdinand and Isabella, and Hungarian monarchs issued them to Saxons displaced by the Normans.The body of the Constitution also includes a "privileges and immunities" clause, which was early understood to mean that a citizen of New York, say, who happened to be visiting in Philadelphia was entitled to the same protection of the laws as any citizen of Pennsylvania. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 11:19 pm
And the English monarchs won't work so well for Americans-- we deliberately got rid of them.So who, if anyone, would be the cultural equivalent for the American people of Queen Elizabeth or Joan of Arc? [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]
1 Feb 2007, 4:00 am
Denis, traditional burial place of French monarchs, on January 21, 1817, to mark the burial of the remains of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 2:03 pm
England went into traumatized mourning deeper than anyone could have predicted, while the royal family — Diana's estranged former inlaws — offered no public reaction at all.As resentment toward the royal cold shoulder built into a monarchical crisis of public opinion, young Mr. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 12:52 pm
Tags: legal andrew, travel, flight, monarch, england, spain, portugal [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 4:35 am
Bishop Alan Harper, new head of the Irish Anglican church, says that the ban on Catholics and those married to Catholics becoming the British monarch should be abolished. [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 1:23 am
Anglo-Iranian had a "grossly unequal contract, negotiated with a corrupt monarch" for the oil; the contract "required it to pay Iran just 16 percent of the money it earned from selling the country's oil. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:05 pm
He had a generally positive view of England, but this - and the English monarch's decision to use force of arms against the American colonies - soured him on Prime Minister Pitt ("perhaps he seeks to promote freedom and culture - perhaps - but the barbarous slave trade certainly stands higher on his agenda") and on England ("The English nation (gens), viewed as a people (populus), constitute the most valuable link in the entire chain of humanity. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 9:01 am
But no one should or would confuse the last monarchs of, say, Austria and Russia with world historical individuals. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 2:36 pm
The concept of professional independence is much stronger over there, probably due to historical battles between the lawyers guilds on the one hand, and the monarch and church on the other. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 7:41 am
Those historic decisions will profoundly affect the ability of any future President to claim monarchical powers. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 12:01 am
Based on the discussion in the comments section last night and the general events since the first of the year, perhaps we should all take a moment to reflect on the words.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 becomes The throned monarch better than his crown;….Therefore, Jew,Though justice be thy… [read post]
25 Dec 2006, 5:02 am
An archive of all the Queen's Christmas broadcasts since 1952 is available on the British Monarch website. [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 6:38 am
At that time in America, the monarch ruled the courts, not the law. [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 9:59 am
Interesting article today in Reuter's: Nepal's King Pays Tax for the First Time:Nepal's King Gyanendra has paid customs duty on his personal goods, the first time a monarch of the Himalayan nation has paid any type of tax, a government... [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 8:04 am
" But, Turow says, the "extensive powers claimed by the Bush administration" are in conflict with the fact that the Bill of Rights was created to "keep the new American executive from repeating the monarchal abuses of King George. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 10:09 pm
In 1528, William Tyndale, translator of the Bible (most of the "King James" version is his single-handed work), examined scripture relating to acquiescence to authority and concluded: "Hereby seest thou that the king is in this world without law, and may at his lust do right or wrong and shall give accompts, but to God only. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 7:09 pm
Any juxtaposition of brilliant and talented graverobber Hershel Shanks and hereditary monarch David Nimmer is worth taking a look at. [read post]
