http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/monarchy/ en-us Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:41:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090668/posts Gordon Brown is reportedly preparing legislation to repeal the Act of Settlement during the fourth term of a Labour government. The give away as to the likelihood of this happening is at the end of the sentence: the prospect of Labour winning a fourth term is about as great as the return of the Jacobite Pretender. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090668/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:41:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088141/posts Hi. Did you know that the Monarchy is today's Royal Family and the Royal Art and Residence? Not that I'm bothered it doesn't mean anything to me. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2088141/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030724/posts The UN Human Rights Council said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican". The council has 29 members including Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sri Lanka. It was the Sri Lankan envoy who raised concerns over the British monarchy. The resulting report said Britain should have a referendum on the monarchy and the need for a written constitution with a bill of rights. UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030724/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021791/posts Excerpt - KATHMANDU, May 27 (Reuters) - The Nepali government warned on Tuesday that it could use force to throw unpopular King Gyanendra out of the royal palace if he refuses to leave voluntarily after the 239-year-old monarchy is abolished. A special assembly elected in April is scheduled to hold its first meeting on Wednesday and formally declare an end to the monarchy, a key part of a 2006 peace deal with Maoist former rebels that ended a decade-long civil war. "The king must leave the palace immediately and move to the Nirmal Niwas," Peace and Reconstruction Minister Ram Chandra... Reuters (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021791/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 07:59:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930802/posts Australia will hold a referendum on removing the Queen as head of state after Kevin Rudd, the Labor leader and a staunch republican, swept to power at the weekend, bringing an end to 11 years of Conservative rule. Mr Rudd, 50, a former diplomat, has promised to hold a plebiscite on severing links with the monarchy. He said yesterday that he would withdraw Australian troops from Iraq and ratify the Kyoto pact on climate change. With 53 percent of the vote, Mr Rudd brought an emphatic end to the 11-year tenure of John Howard, an avowed monarchist who was set... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930802/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:04:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1918858/posts Francisco Louçã, the BE leader shows his point of views over the portuguese monarchy and its actual form. Monarquicos.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1918858/posts#comment Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:25:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915170/posts Abstract: "The Irony of Populism: The Republican Shift and the Inevitability of American Aristocracy" analyzes the shift in the role of the Supreme Court following the movement towards a democratic Senate which culminated in the Seventeenth Amendment. The Supreme Court's shift is presented as the inevitable result of the system of mixed government that underlies the constitutional order, which orders American Government into democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical parts. While in the original conception of the constitution the Senate was the aristocratic part, the Senate would become part of the democratic part with the Seventeenth Amendment and prior procedural changes. Into... Social Science Research Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915170/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:12:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896502/posts There's a strange debate dominating the Democratic campaign so far. Hillary Clinton's calling card seems to be the experience that she possesses and that Barack Obama lacks. " 'Change' is just a word if you don't have the strength and experience to make it happen," she told an audience this past week, before promptly making the line the centerpiece of a new ad in New Hampshire and Iowa. "Hillary is the best-prepared to be president of any non-incumbent I have ever had a chance to vote for," the clearly biased Bill Clinton has said repeatedly on the trail this summer.... RealClearPolitics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896502/posts#comment Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731840/posts On the 6th of November, Sweden – and Gothenburg in particular – remembers perhaps its most famous and successful King: Gustav II Adolf, who reigned from 1611 until his death in 1632. Monday will be the 374th anniversary of his death (aged just 37) on the battlefield in Lützen in Germany during the Thirty Years War. He is the only Swedish King to have been honoured with the title “The Great” (“Den Stora”) and the anniversary of his death is an official Swedish flag day. Related Articles 'Swede's body found' in Ireland 3rd November 2006 Viking treasure found on Gotland... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731840/posts#comment Fri, 3 Nov 2006 23:41:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712349/posts PRAGUE, October 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The recent reburial of the remains of Maria Fyodorovna, the Danish princess who married the future Aleksandr III of Russia in 1866, is the latest episode in a long-standing effort to cultivate the idea of restoring the monarchy in Russia. The idea gained currency under President Boris Yeltsin in 1997, when his close circle, alarmed by the Russian president's ailing health, started to think about a possible successor. Some of them turned their attention to the living descendents of the Romanov dynasty. That same year, renovation work began at the Kremlin to restore the... RFERL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712349/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:07:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1648362/posts Can Reza Pahlavi, heir of the late Shah of Iran, play a role in bringing down the current Iranian régime? There is a precedent. Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia played a key role in organising opposition to the Milosevic régime. Alexander's only criterion for inviting opposition leaders to his conference was that they had to be advocates of democracy. He, properly, kept himself out of debates as to whether Yugoslavia or Serbia should be capitalist or socialist. The illegal decision to strip the royal family of their citizenship and their property, made by Tito immediately after the war, was reversed,... QuentinLangley.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1648362/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:16:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630915/posts Prince Harry will begin the training this month that will prepare him for immediate deployment in Iraq, senior officers said yesterday.For the next five months the newly-commissioned officer will take the troop commander's course in Dorset and get "up to his elbows in engine grease" while sharing a cramped and sometimes noxious tank with two others. Extra security measures have been taken at the Armour Centre in Bovington where the prince will learn to lead a troop of four Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles. The training, which starts on May 22, will make Prince Harry qualified to lead his men into... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630915/posts#comment Fri, 12 May 2006 05:07:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614293/posts This has been an eventful month for the third in succession to the throne. Yesterday, Prince Harry graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. A week or so before, he was revealed as having visited a "lap-dancing club" in Slough in the early hours of the morning. The two occasions, it will be argued, are not of comparable significance in the young man's life. But their very difference, and their following each other so quickly, tells us something about the constitutional monarchy, its past, and the future in which it must live. Graduating from Sandhurst is one of the... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614293/posts#comment Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:04:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1594212/posts <    Return to the Main Menu | Sign up for our Newsletter | Join our new Discussion Forums | Comments and Suggestions Alexander IIIBy Scott MalsomConsidered Russia's last true autocrat, Alexander III was the epitome of what a Russian Tsar was supposed to be. Forceful, formidable, fiercely patriotic, and at 6' 4" towered over his fellow countrymen. He was the embodiment of the fabled Russian bear. He came to power at a critical point in Imperial Russian history. The Industrial Revolution had finally come to Russia and capitalism was taking root. Foreign investment within the country was at an... Alexander Palace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1594212/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:53:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563100/posts The Kuwaiti government has submitted a letter to parliament to start constitutional procedures to remove the oil-rich state's ailing emir, parliament speaker Jassem al-Khorafi told AFP Monday. "Yes, I received the letter," said Khorafi, who declined to give further details. Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah became emir on the death of his predecessor last Sunday. Agence France Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563100/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:18:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526561/posts A Monarchy in Danger Freedom Today Magazine The United Kingdom By William John Hagan New Labour has become the greatest threat to the future of the British Monarchy since Oliver Cromwell. The only people to blame for this current state of affairs are those most loyal to the Crown who have somehow failed to confront the issue of public antipathy, illogically hoping that the problem would just disappear. It won’t, as long as today’s incarnation of British Labour controls Parliament. I will say this only once: what works for the United States will not work for the United Kingdom. However,... Freedom Today Magazine (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526561/posts#comment Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:11:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487713/posts An outlawed Iranian opposition group, which obtained a permit from the New York Police Department to hold a demonstration in front of the United Nations today, attracted an estimated 2,500 supporters to protest the presence of Iran’s president at the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly. But many of the crowd, coming from Denmark, Germany, Canada, Eritrea and Sudan, acknowledged that they had been recruited by the organization to attend the rally for money, and that all their expenses – including international air fare, hotels, and a daily stipend - had been paid by the organization. “Basically, what you... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487713/posts#comment Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:46:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481817/posts As regular readers in this column know, my reporting senior and lawful sovereign is His Imperial Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II. When I finally report in to that great Oberste Heeresleitung in the sky, I expect to do so as the Kaiser’s last soldier. Why? Well, beyond Bestimmung, the unhappy fact is that Western civilization’s last chance of survival was probably a victory by the Central Powers in World War I. Their defeat let all the poisons of the French Revolution loose unchecked, which is the main reason that we now live in a moral and cultural cesspool. military.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481817/posts#comment Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473930/posts Tuesday, August 30, 2005 A Constitution for Iraq: Does It Matter? Tel Aviv Notes No. 145 August 30, 2005 A Constitution for Iraq: Does It Matter? Ofra Bengio Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies The birth-pangs of Iraq's new constitution are symptomatic of the deep crisis afflicting the country, and even if an agreed document is eventually produced, it may not only fail to resolve the country's underlying problems but could actually make them worse. After all, in its eighty-five years of existence, Iraq has had no fewer than six constitutions. The first was imposed in 1925... TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473930/posts#comment Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:45:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456297/posts When American bombs were raining down on what is left of Afghanistan, fellow Muslims in the neighbouring Islamic republic of Iran took out to the Streets. Contrary to our expectations in the West, they did not rally to denounce the 'Great Satan' - the name given to America by the late Ayatollah Khomeini. Instead, ordinary Iranians, in one of the most extraordinary shifts in the geopolitical landscape since September 11, challenged their own hard-line Islamic clerics who swept Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in 1979. Tens of thousands of men and women also demonstrated, in several cities, after World... Mideast News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456297/posts#comment Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417879/posts Iran's reigning mullahs and the reformists who would mend the regime's theocratic ways finally have something in common: Iranians don't like either of them. That will likely mean thick voter apathy when the country elects a new president on June 17. For most of the country, disillusionment with the government is escalating. Frustrated by repressive Islamic laws, Iranians elected current president Mohammed Khatami in 1997, hoping he and his reformers would create more democratic rule. But power still resides with unelected clerics. The reformists have accomplished little. The result might surprise many Americans. Seventy percent of today's Iranians are below... WORLD MAGAZINE.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417879/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416267/posts PARIS, 3 June (IPS) Prince Reza Pahlavi joined his voice to other Iranian dissidents inside and outside Iran to urge Iranians not to participate in the coming presidential elections and do not give popular legitimacy a “discredited regime”. “With more than 20 million votes, (outgoing President) Mohammad Khatami was not able to implement his reform program, what can a Hashemi Rafsanjani do, a man who is also very unpopular?”, the 45 years-old son of the late Iranian Monarch observed during a press conference held in Paris on 2 June on the invitation of the French-American Press Association, referring to reports... Iran Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416267/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jun 2005 05:13:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400355/posts Intelligence Reports | Nepal | USA 10 May 2005: With the idea to restore and stabilise democracy in Nepal, constrain King Gyanendra from future coups, and to keep the Maoists from gaining strength and eventual power, the US government has cleared the entry and operation of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which has previously intervened in Poland (through the trade union, Solidarity), Chile, Nicaragua, Eastern Europe (after the fall of the Soviet bloc), South Africa, Burma, China, Tibet, North Korea, and the Balkans. This was disclosed to Nepalese politicians in private interactions when the US assistant secretary of state,... India-Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400355/posts#comment Tue, 10 May 2005 17:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399455/posts The second anniversary of America's expedition into Iraq passed with relatively scant fanfare. Since hostilities in Mesopotamia commenced, thousands of American and Iraqi casualties have been tallied. Every month Washington spends billion of dollars on counterinsurgency and rebuilding efforts in Iraq and further afield, which swells the nation's largest budget and budget deficit in its history[i]. As vast quantities of blood and treasure are expended abroad, Washington politicians win plaudits domestically for their warmongering, and government contracting at home and abroad burgeon, on what basis is this imperial project—financed by foreign lenders and American taxpayers—justified?... ...Democracy deconstructed As Hans Hermann-Hoppe... The Mises Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399455/posts#comment Mon, 9 May 2005 13:19:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396194/posts NEW DELHI - Himalayan geopolitics were at play again as thousands of Nepalis braved arrest on Sunday, International Labor Day, and openly marched through Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, demanding the restoration of democracy after King Gyanendra lifted a state of emergency imposed three months earlier. For one, analysts here doubt that Gyanendra, on his own accord, made the announcement on Saturday that the February 1 state of emergency had been done away with. It is still not immediately clear what impact the announcement will have, since the king appears to retain the extraordinary powers he took on three months ago. About... Srirangan.net & India-Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396194/posts#comment Wed, 4 May 2005 01:31:07 GMT