Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
Adulyadej, Bhumibol. Royal Speech Given to the Audience of Well-Wishers on the Occasion of the Royal Birthday Anniversary, December 4, 2005. Amarin Printing and Publishing, 2006.
Typical of the times, the king was accountable to no one for anything. 200 years later, most of the world have accepted the principle that no one is above the law and that every leader is accountable to the people.
William the Conqueror. See Henry of Huntington for another similar description of the King's authority.
Your ideas of democracy are The Zemstvos had come to plead for reforms from the young Czar who most Russians hoped would be more modern than his all-powerful and dictatorial father. In a sense, it was this quotation that drove many moderate Russians to the radical side, and the quotation was used as a recruiting toll by both the Communist and non-Communist anti-Czarist Russians.
England had, under Henry VIII, left the Roman Catholic Church where the King replaced the Pope as head of the English Church. Henry’s successors then had to organize and manage the national Christian church. James was discussing the hierarchy of the Church of England and there was a suggestion that Bishops be eliminated and have every priest directly responsible to the crown. Bishops would be powerful figures who might form a power center. (They did later). However, King James I observed that the King is God’s choice and rules by divine right. So there had to be bishops to crown kings. The bishoprics were retained.
The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
Drake named the land Nova Albion.
This concept was later formalized in British law. See Blackstone.
This and many other statements have been used to refute the allegation made by some that the Japanese Emperor and Commander in Chief had no influence and control over the military and thus was not responsible for any war crimes.
She was Queen of Scotland and claimed the English throne as well. While Elizabeth I was on the throne of England, Mary claimed that the court had no jurisdiction over an absolute monarch. Her son was in France at the time but eventually succeeded to the Scottish throne as James VI and the English throne as James I.
Bhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987 (officially conferred by King Vajiralongkorn in 2019), was the ninth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX. Reigning since 9 June 1946, he was the world's longest-reigning current head of state from the death of Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1989 until his own death in 2016, and is both the second-longest reigning monarch of all time and the longest-reigning monarch to have reigned only as an adult, reigning for 70 years and 126 days. During his reign, he was served by a total of 30 prime ministers beginning with Pridi Banomyong and ending with Prayut Chan-o-cha.
