Senatus et Populus

A century ago today, Amendment XVII to the United States Constitution was officially declared ratified. The amendment provided for mandatory popular election of United States Senators.


Previously: Directly Elected U.S. Senators

An Assassin Sets Out...

A year short of a century ago today, Gavrilo Princip left Belgrade for Sarajevo.

Peter Hitchens recently revisited World War I, and Mr. Hitchens also has some thoughts on Goodbye to All That.

The Lion of Lans

14 years ago today, Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn passed away.

This blog brings to you an article by the late author – in two parts (H/T: Anarcho-Monarchism).

Please feel free to browse previous posts.

Police and Parking

Jeremy Drew documents and comments on police in Las Vegas:

The American Union and Rethinking

Over at The American Conservative, Joseph Baldacchino reviews Donald Livingston et al.'s Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century.

Loyalists to Canada

230 years ago today, United Empire Loyalists arrived in Canada.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila at 100

A century ago today, Nicolás Gómez Dávila was born.

Some aphorisms:

• As long as they do not take him seriously, the man who says the truth can live for a while in a democracy. Then, the hemlock.
• Democratic parliaments are not forums where debates take place, but rather where popular absolutism registers its decrees.
• Being of “divine right” limited the monarch; the “representative of the people” is the representative of absolute Absolutism.
• In order to oppress the people, it is necessary to suppress in the name of the people that which stands out from the people.
• Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
• Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different.
• No folktale ever began this way: Once upon a time, there was a president…

Constitution Day

A year short of two centuries ago today, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway was signed.

A previous May 17 performance by the Royal Guards:

Ron Paul Going Forward

RT reported a few weeks ago:

The full video of the opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:

Ron Paul on Boston

MSNBCs take on police activity in Massachusetts dissected (H/T: Daniel McAdams):

And here's more (if there is any doubt, I do not endorse the text at the very end):

Fürst Metternich

A dozen score years ago today, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein was born.

Osnabrück of Westphalia

365 years ago today, the Treaty at Osnabrück of the Peace of Westphalia was signed.