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1 May 2020, 7:00 am
Social-contract theory was tailor-made to rebut monarchical claims of divine right, but it offered little help when facing a conflict over how to define the polity. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 1:01 am
As James Loewen pointed out in the book Lies My Teacher Told Me: “Here now began a reign of terror in Hispaniola. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 6:30 am
And although his argument was initially framed in the midst of 19th century German political debates about the limits of monarchical power, it transcended its context. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 9:00 pm
Because they feared one would be tempted to become monarchical. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm
The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 6:06 am
Intended to curtail monarchical absolutism and replace it with parliamentary oversight, impeachment subjected royal officials to trial for public offenses. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
What is “executive privilege”? [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 1:26 am
Lady Hale adjourns the Court for lunch until 14:00. 1303: Lord Pannick QC says authorities on dissolution are not good precedents as this power no longer exists and was personal to the Monarch. 1300: Lord Pannick QC accepts that the authorities sug [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 10:29 am
MacDonald and James W.J. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 7:35 am
The pilot on all three trips was English explorer James Hall.After the Norse settlements died off, Greenland came under the de facto control of various Inuit groups, but the Danish government never forgot or relinquished the claims to Greenland that it had inherited from the Norse. [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 5:02 am
" James Wilson of Pennsylvania then propounded a Whig-type limited conception of executive power. [read post]
20 May 2019, 10:55 am
The extent to which federal obstruction of justice statutes apply to the president, especially when concerning actions facially within the office’s powers under Article II, has been hotly contested at least since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
1 May 2019, 8:47 am
Earlier, in 1902, James Allen published As a Man Thinketh, which proceeds from the conviction that "a man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. [read post]
6 Jan 2019, 12:01 am
President James K. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 6:00 am
To accept the latter notion is to adopt a significant more “monarchical” view of presidential authority than is entailed by the former, in which Congress retains a possibly decisive role in determining who exercises at least some facets of executive power. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 7:34 am
May a president invoke Article II removal powers to fire senior law enforcement personnel—say, FBI director James Comey—if the sole or overriding purpose is to protect himself or close associates from a solidly predicated criminal investigation? [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:25 am
The combination of chief executive and monarch in the American presidency is not likely to change. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 1:01 am
” This official portrait of Captain James Cook was painted in 1775. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 6:51 am
James Madison A leader of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, James Madison wrote violently against the Alien Acts. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 10:54 am
For example, as George Mason University Professor of Public Policy James Pfiffner has observed: the president cannot pardon “before an offense has been committed, which would give the President the power to waive the laws. [read post]
