Paul III issued a decree for a general council to be held in Mantua, Italy, to begin May 23, 1537.

The cardinal then read a decree of Gregory XII which convoked the council and authorized its succeeding acts.

In accordance with a decree of the Council of Constance, ordering that councils should be held every five years, Martin V summoned a council in 1423 that met first at Pavia and later at Siena ( the " Council of Siena ").

While in Rome he assisted at a council then being held concerning certain questions on " the life and monastic peace of monks ", and, on his departure, took with him to England the decree of the council together with letters from the pope to Lawrence, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the clergy, to King Ethelbert of Kent, and to all the English people " concerning what was to be observed by the Church of England ".

Approved by a vote of 2, 318 to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.

* February – Pope Gregory VII holds a council that publishes a decree against lay investiture.

However, since even the bishops opposed to opening of the council were now present, Cyril maneuvered Candidian by means of a ruse to read out the text of the Emperor's decree of convocation, which the assembly then acclaimed as recognition of its own legality.

The Synodicon, or decree, of the council was publicly proclaimed on this day, including an anathema against not only Iconoclasm but also of previous heresies.

The building parts have also been listed as a series of historic monuments by government decree of June 26, 2003, including its roofs and belfry, main hall, glass roof, the staircase, corridor serving the first floor, the rooms on the first floor ( including decoration ): the wedding room, the VIP lounge, the lounge of the council and the cabinet room.

At the expiration of the first term fixed by this decree, Pope Martin V complied by calling a council at Pavia.

In 1820 Royer-Collard was excluded from the council of state by a decree signed by his former ally Serre.

The influence of Bossuet, at that time tutor to the dauphin, was invoked ; the chancellor, Michael le Tellier, lent his assistance ; a decree of the council of state was obtained, and after a series of intrigues the whole impression, consisting of 1300 copies, was seized by the police and destroyed.

This extemporaneous and intimidated council then carried a decree by acclamation: " It is plain to all that Severus in separating himself from this church condemned himself.

The constitution stipulates the prime minister chairs the council of ministers ( article 45 ) and is appointed by royal decree ( article 43 ).

Whereas some have dared to assert concerning the nature of the reasonable soul that it is mortal, we, with the approbation of the sacred council do condemn and reprobate all those who assert that the intellectual soul is mortal, seeing, according to the canon of Pope Clement V, that the soul is [...] immortal [...] and we decree that all who adhere to like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.

I will cover the following points: 1 ) the emergence of the kanrei council system, and the Board of Retainers as intermediary instruments that tied shugo lords more firmly to the regime ; 2 ) the emergence of a coercive instrument in the form of shogunal hegemony that was used to discipline errant shugo lords, and the final defeat of Southern Court forces ; 3 ) the use of the court ranking system as an intermediary instrument that tied the regime to the imperial court, and in connection to this the hanzei half-tax decree of 1368 and its effect ; and 4 ) the limitations to Muromachi authority in the Kyūshū and Kantō regions.

To change the town's architecture and break with its rural past, the town council passed a decree banning the construction of new wooden houses in 1847.

However, in practice, the head of the council ( the Majestor or Majestrix ) exercises strong executive control and can institute policy virtually by decree.

By decree of Apithy and the rest of the council, Togolese opposition leader Noe Kutuklui was officially expelled from Dahomey on October 27, 1971, where he had been practicing law since the late 1960s.

In the second session, the fathers approved the decree Zelus fidei, which contained no juridical statutes but rather summed up constitutions about the perils of the Holy Land, the means for paying for a proposed crusade, the excommunication of pirates and corsairs and those who protected them or traded with them, a declaration of peace among Christians, a grant of remission of sins for those willing to go on crusade, the intention to deal with the schismatic Greeks and the definition of the order and procedure to be observed in the council.

By decree of the January 25, 1871, French India was provided with an elective general council ( Conseil général ) and elective local councils ( Conseil local ).

The last decree proposed the convocation of a national council.

Among the Jewish practices abandoned by Proto-orthodox Christianity, Circumcision was rejected as a requirement at the Council of Jerusalem, c. 50, though the decree of the council parallels Jewish Noahide Law.

Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties ; proclamation of a state of emergency ; rule by decree ; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures ; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.

A law and a decree establishing the legal basis and procedures for state property privatization reduced the number of companies controlled by the state.

The order was made by a presidential decree on state television and is the first major diplomatic move made by the new leader.

In October 1999, the Indonesian parliament ( MPR ) revoked the decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor ( UNTAET ) assumed responsibility for governing East Timor until it officially became an independent state in May 2002.

She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to ' rule by decree ' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office.

Under a January 1986 Military Council decree, state executive and legislative powers were transferred to the King who was to act on the advice of the Military Council, a self-appointed group of leaders of the Royal Lesotho Defense Force ( RLDF ).

Lettres de cachet were abolished after the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, but Napoleon reestablished their penal equivalent by a political measure in the decree of 8 March 1801 on the state prisons.

Antipater argues that marriage is the foundation of the state, and considers it to be based on divine ( polytheistic ) decree.

A Constituent Assembly, extension of the presidential term from four years to six years, and clauses empowering the president to decree laws relating to the National Guard without consulting Congress, ensured Somoza's absolute control over the state and military.

** Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

Use of " physical means of persuasion " ( torture ) was sanctioned by a special decree of the state, which opened the door to numerous abuses, documented in recollections of victims and members of the NKVD itself.

When the person or class of persons bringing the suit prevails, the result is often a consent decree that gives a federal court, or a special master appointed by a federal court, supervisory authority over the way that a state or local government entity carries out its duties.

Socialist realism became state policy in 1932 when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin promulgated the decree " On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organizations ".

After the March on Rome, King Victor Emmanuel III refused to sign a decree to declare a state of siege, and asked Mussolini to form a new government.

A decree by Umberto II, issued as a General Lieutenant of the government ( decreto legge luogotenenziale 25 giugno 1944, n. 151 ) during Ivanoe Bonomi ’ s time in office as Prime Minister, prescribed that a Constitutional Assembly would be organized after the war to draft a constitution and to choose an institutional form for the state.

The president also has vast emergency powers to suspend basic rights in times of emergency, to defer the legislature, to declare a state of siege, and to rule by decree.

Under Vichy, the French state attempted to abrogate the Crémieux decree in order to suppress the Jews ' having French citizenship, but the measure was never implemented.

In 1937, a decree was signed transferring the state capital from the Cidade de Goiás to Goiânia.

At the same time, the " Reich Citizenship Law " was passed and was reinforced in November by a decree, stating that all Jews, even quarter-and half-Jews, were no longer citizens of their own country ( their official title became " subjects of the state ").

Soon after taking office, Stroessner declared a state of siege, which allowed him to suspend civil liberties and rule by decree.

In 1950, by decree of the state congress, the city received the title of Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza.