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9 Sep 2022, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
As The Guardian explains here, British law provides near-total immunity to the monarch. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
Queen Elizabeth II, the world’s longest-serving head of state who has reigned as queen for more than seven decades, has passed away at age 96. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 11:57 am by Tom Smith
"All the Queen's children travelled to Balmoral, near Aberdeen, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision.Her grandson, Prince William, is also there, with his brother, Prince Harry, on his way.Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was appointed by the Queen on Tuesday, said the monarch was the rock on which modern Britain was built and she had "provided us with the stability and strength that we needed".Speaking about the new King, she said: "We offer him… [read post]
5 Sep 2022, 5:58 am
  The Queen is in Scotland for the summer and the 96-year-old monarch has some mobility issues, as the Palace discretely refers to her age-related challenges.Truss has had a long and winding road to becoming PM. [read post]
3 Sep 2022, 11:47 am by Eugene Volokh
Wilson defended the Constitution in the Pennsylvania convention by speaking of the three forms of government being the "monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical," and said that in a democracy the sovereign power is "inherent in the people, and is either exercised by themselves or by their representatives. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 7:03 am by Jon Shazar - Dealbreaker
The Meme Stock Monarch burns his subjects. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 6:35 am by jonathanturley
Elizabeth I, similarly, described themself regularly in speeches as ‘king’, ‘queen’ and ‘prince’, choosing strategically to emphasize their female identity or their male monarchical role at different points…” I must confess that I take the emphasis on clothing and conduct to be a tad superficial as evidence of gender nonconformity as opposed to women who refused to be confined by social convention. [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 9:48 am by Sandy Levinson
  To describe Teitelbaum as a "leader" is an understatement: Chasidic communities are basically under the iron rule of singular quasi-monarchical rabbis, and Teitelbaum had the kind of sway over members of his community that no modern king or queen can dream of. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 5:27 am by Y. Michael Yin, JD
Father then agreed to go to Monarch for mental health assessment, and both parents agreed to submit to random drug screening. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 5:53 am by Bill Henderson
[click on to enlarge]Apolitical technicians working in an ahistorical profession. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 5:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In North America, millions of monarch butterflies undertake the longest migration of any insect species known to science…” [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
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]
14 Jul 2022, 4:41 pm by INFORRM
Parliament’s Absolute Legislative Authority What the Bill of Rights actually did was to end the monarch’s claim to absolute rule by Divine Right, establish a constitutional monarchy by imposing on the monarch a measure of accountability to Parliament, and lay the basis for the legal doctrine of Parliament’s absolute legislative authority. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
The much-vaunted Chapters 39 and 40 of the Charter did not confer rights on the king’s subjects but simply imposed restraints upon the monarch, and limited ones at that. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 9:07 pm by Dan Flynn
Petitioners also challenged EPA’s decision based on threats to the environment and imperiled species, such as the Monarch butterfly. [read post]