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27 Jan 2008, 6:43 am
They did not want another monarch. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 9:09 pm
"(Of course, this is the same King James who tore out the page of Parliament's Journals asserting a parliamentary privilege to speak freely.)The concept of royal "letters of privilege" goes back even further. [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]
27 Apr 2018, 1:01 am
The era of Tudor monarchs in England lasted from 1485 to 1603. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 3:50 am
Whereas just over four centuries ago the monarch had absolute power, she now has practically none. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 11:00 pm
The courts, which in the seventeenth century were within the power of the monarch, were prevented from interfering with the proceedings of Parliament. [read post]
14 Jul 2022, 4:41 pm
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]
21 Jan 2020, 9:00 pm
Because they feared one would be tempted to become monarchical. [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 5:33 am
In seeking independence from a monarch, we vowed to create and sustain fair laws for all people, making this promise real with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am
The constitutional Framers were careful to restrict many traditional monarchical powers. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 8:33 am
” The former is human; the latter is an immortal entity constituting the quasi-spiritual essence of monarchical authority and the state itself. [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]
17 Jan 2018, 8:15 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]
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]
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]
7 Sep 2013, 4:23 pm
Hyde was, after his manner, a remarkable historian, but he was more: through his daughter, he was the grandfather of two monarchs. [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]
14 Nov 2016, 5:16 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]
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]
13 May 2015, 11:43 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]
