The King's political reform program also provided for the establishment of a national Consultative Council, with appointed members having advisory powers to review and give advice on issues of public interest.

John was left isolated ( even the Black Prince supported the need for reform ) and the Commons refused to grant money for the war unless most of the great officers of state were dismissed, and the King's mistress Alice Perrers, another focus of popular resentment, was barred from any further association with him.

In 1639, in response to Charles ' attempts to reform the Scottish Church, civil war broke out between the King's forces and the Presbyterian Covenanters.

But many of his partisans were active in the Estates General which endeavoured to govern and reform France in the power-vacuum created by the King's imprisonment while much of the country degenerated into anarchy.

The King's southern tour and reform plans, although administratively sound by modern standards, had created much local opposition and modern historians have linked the King's role in Poiters with the sudden outbreak of violence.

Despite the King's disapproval, the first Groza government brought land reform and women's suffrage.

In the beginning of the Long Parliament ( 1641 ) the King's supporters were few in number, and the Parliament pursued a course of reform of previous abuses.

After the riots, Governor King's administration resisted attempts to reform the prison.

This definitely tipped the scale of political influence in favor of the Storting, and it is not easy to see the reasons for the King's acceptance of this reform.

With the King's backing Mazdak could embark on a program of social reform, which involved pacifism, anti-clericalism and aid programs for helping the poor.

He was employed by the royal household as an apprentice-at-law and thus secured a tie with them ; this is likely why he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons for the 1439 Parliament, when there were attempts to reform the King's household.

Carlos Arias Navarro consistently impeded the King's wishes of accelerating reform.

Adolfo Suárez was a staunch supporter of the King's reform policies.

After the reform of the common law courts in 1873, actions were only said to be tried at nisi prius, and a judge said to sit at nisi prius, when he sat, usually in the King's Bench Division, for the trial of actions.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

After the constitutional reform of 2003 it became a collectivité d ' outre-mer while keeping the title collectivité départementale de Mayotte.

In 1919, Steiner's chief work on social reform ( English title: Toward Social Renewal ) was released simultaneously in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and sold some 80, 000 copies in the first year.

In 1948 Täby acquired the title of a " merchant town " (), valid until the reform of 1971.

However, in 1970 only 45 % of peasant families had received title to land, although more land reform projects continued in the 1970s and 1980s.

Chua states that she is a " big fan of trying to promote markets and democracy globally ," but that it should be accompanied by attempts to " redistribute the wealth, whether it's property title and giving poor people property, land reform .... Redistributive mechanisms are tough to have if you have so much corruption.

Nevertheless, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, like his counterparts in the United Kingdom, retained the usage of the honorific after this time as a result of a separate conferring of the title by law ; in 2001 the honorific was removed as a consequence of local government law reform.

On 1 January 2002, following a major reform of local government which also abolished the 300 year old title of Alderman in the Republic of Ireland and 700 year old title of ' town clerk ' in Dublin, the ancient name of Dublin Corporation was abolished, with the 19th century name Dublin City Council, that previously had been used simply to refer to the assembly of elected councillors, being given for the entire administration.

In 1793 he supported Earl Grey's motion for a return to the old constitutional system of representation, and so earned the title to be regarded as one of the earliest promoters of the cause of parliamentary reform ; and he was one of the founders of the Society of the Friends of the People.

The long title of the Act is An Act to establish and make provision about the National Assembly for Wales and the offices of Auditor General for Wales and Welsh Administration Ombudsman ; to reform certain Welsh public bodies and abolish certain other Welsh public bodies ; and for connected purposes.

Lerma was also responsible for the appointment of Don Pedro Franqueza to reform royal finances, but who instead managed to embezzle enough funds to purchase the title of Count of Villalonga.

The Society of the Friends of the People ( full title The Society of the Friends of the People, Associated for the Purpose of Obtaining a Parliamentary Reform ) was formed in Great Britain by Whigs at the end of the 18th century as part of a movement seeking radical political reform that would widen electoral enfranchisement at a time when only a wealthy minority had the vote.

The Amsterdam Treaty meant a greater emphasis on citizenship and the rights of individuals, an attempt to achieve more democracy in the shape of increased powers for the European Parliament, a new title on employment, a Community area of freedom, security and justice, the beginnings of a common foreign and security policy ( CFSP ) and the reform of the institutions in the run-up to enlargement.

After the 1935 rank reform that established ' personal ranks ' in the Soviet military, it was reintroduced as the rank title for administrative and supply officers.

Article 374 of the Honduras Constitution asserts this unmodifiability, stating, " It is not possible to reform, in any case, the preceding article, the present article, the constitutional articles referring to the form of government, to the national territory, to the presidential period, the prohibition to serve again as President of the Republic, the citizen who has performed under any title in consequence of which she / he cannot be President of the Republic in the subsequent period.

Now allowed to use the title " The Honourable ", he soon became one the Senate's leading figures in the field of constitutional reform, co-chairing a Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada in 1971, and another on Senate Reform in 1983.

His work at statecraft included the following: the slow pacification of party strife, nonetheless with republican opposition latent and episodically expressed ; his assumption of the title Imperator ( refusing the crown, yet continuing since 49 as dictator ), with reversion of the Senate to an advisory council, and the popular comitia as a compliant legislature, although law might be made by his edicts alone ; his assumption of authority over tax and treasury, over provincial governors, and over the capital ; supreme jurisdiction ( trial and appellate ) over the continuing republican legal system, with the judex being selected among senators or equites, yet criminal courts remained corrupted by factional infighting ; supreme command over the decayed Roman army, which was reorganized and which remained under civilian control ; reform of government finance, of budgeting re income and expense, and of corn distribution ; cultivation of civil peace in Rome by control of criminal " clubs ", by new city police, and by public building projects.

At this time, McMurtry decided to restore the Order by invoking his emergency orders from Crowley which gave him authority ( subject to Karl Germer's approval ) to " take charge of the whole work of the Order in California to reform the Organization ", and he assumed the title " Caliph of O. T. O .," as specified in Crowley's letters to McMurtry from the 1940s.

Caliphate ), al-Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Donya wa al-Din Qasim Amir al-mu ' minin ( The Sultan King al-Ashraf reform of temporal world and faith sharer of the Emir of the faithful ) the Emir of the faithful was the title of the Abbasid Caliph.

He may deserve the title which has been given him as " precursor of the Reformation ," insofar as he desired the reform of the Church based on the writings of St. Paul, but not the establishment of a rival.

The Novum Organum implied in its title a further reform of Aristotle, and its aphorism viii of Book I made this exact point.

Another use of this dual title was when in 1867 the multi-national but Austrian-German-ruled Austrian Empire, facing growing nationalism, saw a reform that gave nominal and factual rights to Hungarian nobility culminating in the revival of the Austrian-annexed Kingdom of Hungary and therefore creating both the dual-monarchic union state of Austria-Hungary and the dual title of king-emperor ( though in German the word order of Kaiser und König ( often abbreviated k. u. k .) follows the rank, as well of the titles as of the received importance of the countries ).

The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

USAID has programming in the following areas: economic policy reform and restructuring ; private sector development ( the Business Development Program ); infrastructure rebuilding ; democratic reforms in the media, political process and elections, and rule of law / legal code formulation ; and training programs for women and diplomats.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

Public outcry following the overturning of his conviction ( for perjury ) by the High Court has led to widespread calls for reform of the law along the lines of the UK legislation.

The municipality Delphi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 8 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

In May 1997, following the demonstrations that led to the ousting of Bucaram and appointment of Alarcón, the people of Ecuador called for a National Assembly to reform the Constitution and the country's political structure.

England might have become a more " Puritan absolute monarchy ", as " existed in Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and Prussia in the seventeenth century ", rather than following the path of parliamentary and civil reform that it did.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

A presence was re-established on the mainland in 1979 following China's reform and opening up and a year later the firm established the Beijing Air Catering Company Ltd., the first foreign joint venture in the country.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

The municipality Larissa was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

The municipality Megara was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units ( constituent communities in brackets ):

Further public criticism and disputes between Democrat senators resulted in Stott Despoja's resignation as leader on 21 August 2002, following presentation by four of her six colleagues ( those who had earlier enabled the passage of the GST ) with a ten-point ' reform ' agenda proposed by John Cherry.

The first Conclave of 1555, following the death of Julius III ( 1550 – 55 ), involved a struggle between French interests in Italy ( which had been favored by Julius III ) and Imperial interests, which were intent on Church reform through a Church council, but with the Emperor controlling the outcome.

The cardinal was involved in Alexander's short-lived effort to reform the Roman Curia following the murder of his son Giovanni Borgia in 1497.

In the following year, 1956, while preparatory studies were being conducted for a general liturgical reform, Pope Pius XII surveyed the opinions of the bishops on the liturgical improvement of the Roman breviary.

The World Council of Churches proposed a reform of the method of determining the date of Easter at a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997: Easter would be defined as the first Sunday following the first astronomical full moon following the astronomical vernal equinox, as determined from the meridian of Jerusalem.

Since the Army XXI reform in 2004, the basic structure of the Land Forces has been reorganised in the following units: infantry brigades ( 2 and 5 ); mountain infantry brigades ( 9 and 12 ); armoured brigades ( 1 and 11 ).

Upon assuming power, the FSLNs political platform included the following: nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their supporters ; land reform ; improved rural and urban working conditions ; free unionization for all workers, both urban and rural ; price fixing for commodities of basic necessity ; improved public services, housing conditions, education ; abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty ; protection of democratic liberties ; equality for women ; non-aligned foreign policy ; formation of a " popular army " under the leadership of the FSLN and Humberto Ortega.

The following period of peace allowed Charles XI of Sweden to reform and stabilize the empire.

However, several Flemish political parties want a sixth state reform following the 2007 general election, while the vast majority of Walloon politicians oppose this.

The present municipality Dodoni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units: