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13 Jul 2022, 4:09 pm
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]
12 Jun 2022, 4:57 am
Quick links Elijah Z Granet, ICLR Blog: Crown and court, continuity and change: the implications of a monarch’s accession for the legal system. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 1:25 pm
She was active monarch, often involved in political affairs. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 9:03 pm
WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK In an article in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, James R. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 6:14 am
Nabokov Pnin vi. 138 Amber-brown Monarch butterflies flapped.., their incompletely retracted black legs hanging rather low beneath their polka-dotted bodies.1996 Esquire June 38 A model whose nom de spume was Big Ginger bobbed her lush mangoes perkily against her polka-dotted bikini top. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 5:31 am
Likewise, James Wilson, one of the main drafters of the Constitution and one of the first Supreme Court justices, defended the Constitution in 1787 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]
6 Jan 2022, 5:26 am
I’m sure it would have, back when the monarch could do whatever he or she wanted, but things are different now. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 3:31 pm
The English Bill of Rights aimed to rectify the past abuses of monarchs, including the despotic King James II, who was overthrown in 1688 partly because of attempt to disarm the English people and rule via the force of a standing army. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 1:01 am
Official portrait of Captain James Cook [read post]
1 May 2021, 5:16 pm
So when John Knight, a political enemy of King James II, carried a gun to church one Sunday, he was acquitted, because the evidence showed that his bearing arms was peaceable and defensive. [read post]
1 May 2021, 1:01 am
Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 2:55 pm
" As Wilson explains, monarchs and other similar rulers might have a right of sovereign immunity against their "subjects. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 9:05 pm
For William of Orange to ascend to the throne, he had to marry a Stuart (Mary II) and submit to the English Bill of Rights, thereby becoming the first constitutional monarch as part of the Glorious Revolution. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 11:28 am
The notion grants the president something akin to a monarchical power, a governmental form against which the very founding of the United States was a rebellion. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 1:20 pm
" issue the proclamation of the Ascension of a new monarch. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 6:16 am
A life-long fine art painter, he was never shy about praising his former art students such as Alton Bowman, Jane Goldman, James Havard, Bruce Kunkle, Noel Mahaffey, Ross Merrill, Tom Palmore, Roy Perkinson, Marty Ray, David Searcy, Anne Weary, Robert “Bob” Yarber and Willie Wayne Young. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am
“To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 7:34 am
Gerry thus had a deep fear of monarchical power, misuse of power, and the concentration of power. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am
English monarchs sometimes abused their prerogative to pardon, and therefore the American framers were well aware of both the benefits and risks of a broad pardon power. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am
The constitutional Framers were careful to restrict many traditional monarchical powers. [read post]
