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Further evolution in the 20th century, whereby colonies became sovereign states caused divergence of the institution in the now former colonies, although still embodied in a single monarch. As a political concept or set of political concepts, the Crown should not to be confused with any physical crown, such as those of the British regalia. [3]
A gang member showing his Latin King tattoo – a lion with a crown – and signifying the five point star with his hands. L. A. Kaufman wrote in the February 2015 issue of New York magazine that the Kings had a "unique mixture of intense discipline, revolutionary politics and a homemade religion called 'Kingism '". He suggests that this makes ...
Three-finger salute (pro-democracy) - democracy and resistance to tyranny; Throne, sword and altar – conservatism; Torch – right-libertarianism, conservatism, patriotism, classical liberalism; Triskelion – Polytheistic reconstructionism, Celtic neopaganism; Upside-down crown – republicanism, anti-monarchism; ♀ Venus symbol – feminism
Soon after, in 1818, defenders of the French Old Regime founded a pro-monarchy journal, Le Conservateur, that first used "conservative" in the modern, political sense. The magazine listed what it ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Crown of King of Persis Ardakhshir II, 1st century BC. Crowns have been discovered in pre-historic times from Haryana, India. [4] The precursor to the crown was the browband called the diadem, which had been worn by the Achaemenid Persian emperors. It was adopted by Constantine I and was worn by all subsequent rulers of the later Roman Empire ...
In British heraldry, a coronet is a type of crown that is a mark of rank of non-reigning members of the royal family and peers. In other languages, this distinction is not made, and usually the same word for crown is used irrespective of rank (German: Krone, Dutch: Kroon, Swedish: Krona, French: Couronne, Italian: Corona, etc.)
The House decided by a three-to-two majority that the Order in Council was a lawful exercise of authority. [9] [10] In their speeches, the Law Lords admitted the government of the day was morally wrong to force out some 2,000 residents of the Chagos Archipelago, a British Crown colony, to make way for a US air base in the 1960s. Nevertheless ...