There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.
I am going to mobilise public opinion sufficiently to bring to the very top of the nation's conservation agenda the severely endangered species I have in mind.
It was the unsolved murder of an Anglo rancher, roughly a year ago, that galvanised public opinion in favour of Arizona's now-notorious anti-immigration law.
Not many modern women, however frustrated with their lot, would choose to go back to long skirts, tight corsets and a general assumption that they are stupid.
The campaign of road protection in Sichuan had the ba sis of broad masses, propaganda of public opinions and strict organization while that in Hubei was weaker than that in Sichuan.