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...unanimous: the Government had no moral right to repudiate its own promises to pay in gold. Said the Court: "While the Congress is under no duty to provide remedies through the courts, the contractual obligation still exists and, despite infirmities of procedure, remains binding upon the conscience of the sovereign...
...Conscious before God and history of my responsibility for the destinies of the State, I swear to God Almighty-One in the Holy Trinity-as President of the Republic, to defend the sovereign rights of the State; to guard its dignity; to enforce the Constitution Act; to apply equal justice to all citizens; to ward off evil and danger from the State and to consider the care for its welfare my supreme duty. So help me God and the Holy Passion of His Son. Amen...
...theory the King-in-Parliament is the British sovereign, and he is a powerful, although (under modern conditions) a cooperative prince embodied in several persons, of whom the chief, at present, is King George. Politically, King George has been somewhat less forceful than his father, and one of the few personal acts for which he is likely to be remembered is his invitation to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, after defeat at the polls, to become His Majesty's Prime Minister in the National Government. The twenty-five years of his reign, however, have been years in which personality has counted...
...Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals. In St. James's Palace last week he bowed the knee to his sovereign as a Premier in the British Commonwealth of Nations, a position he has held since 1924, then promptly proved that, no matter what his official position, South Africa is still his only loyalty...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle...