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15 Aug 2017, 8:00 am
While Guam was ruled by chiefs, or maga’låhi, prior to Spanish conquest, the island did not have a comparable monarchic system. [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]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am
“To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 4:06 pm
Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson responded that the guarantee’s purpose was “merely to secure the States [against] dangerous commotions, insurrections and rebellions. [read post]
8 May 2013, 2:04 am
James Madison, always willing to do Jefferson’s bidding Leaving out some events and selecting others creates a narrow shadowbox revealing only what the box’s creator wants you to see. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 3:27 pm
Many religious dissenters could not take vows such as the Oath of Supremacy, which required recognition of the English monarch as supreme governor of the Church of England (as opposed to, for example, the pope). [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 11:34 am
As in the times of monarchical absolute power, the necessity asserted on behalf of administrative power usually is nothing more than an abstract justification, not one grounded in the particulars of any particular administrative regulations or interpretations. [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 12:11 pm
Similarly, history is full of royal pretenders and alleged monarchs. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 7:51 am
Before his defeat in November, Representative James L. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 12:59 am
Similarly, history is full of royal pretenders and alleged monarchs. [read post]
13 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
James Madison, always willing to do Jefferson’s bidding Leaving out some events and selecting others creates a narrow shadowbox revealing only what the box’s creator wants you to see. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 5:44 pm
But in the 17th century (when America was being colonized), the Stuart monarchs in England tried to impose much tighter restrictions. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 10:44 am
(Plymouth, MA; James Baker, President) 21 Street, Inc. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 4:30 am
It derives historically from the monarchical prerogative: William Blackstone famously argued that “one of the great advantages of monarchy in general” is that “there is a magistrate, who has it in his power to extend mercy, wherever he thinks it is deserved: holding a court of equity in his own breast, to soften the rigour of the general law, in such criminal cases as merit an exemption from punishment. [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]
26 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
If, for example, a government announced that it was going to allow all of its citizens to retire early and then give them pensions fit for monarchs, no investors in the world would be willing to put their money into that country. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 6:22 pm
James Comey, his deputy, said "no," he couldn't possibly authorize this. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 12:01 am
Contrast Norton’s career with those of his rival claimants: James Buchanan and later Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
What is “executive privilege”? [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 4:46 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
