In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the Parliament.

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

A common assault is an assault that lacks any of the aggravating features which Parliament has deemed serious enough to deserve a higher penalty.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

* 1077 – The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

Aberavon ( Welsh: Aberafan ) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.

The Reichstag building is the traditional seat of the German Parliament, renovated in the 1950s after severe World War II damage.

Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government moved back to Berlin in 1998.

Executive authority is vested in both the Prime Minister and Cabinet who are collectively responsible to Parliament.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of Botswana.

The Bundeshaus in Bonn is the former Parliament Building of Germany.

One striking difference when comparing the Bundestag with the British Parliament is the lack of time spent on serving constituents in Germany.

In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.

Introduced on Whitsunday 1549, after considerable debate and revision in Parliament — but there is no evidence that it was ever submitted to either Convocation — it was said to have pleased neither reformers nor their opponents, indeed the Catholic Bishop Gardiner could say of it was that it " was patient of a catholic interpretation ".

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

The Council of the European Union ( sometimes just called the Council and sometimes still referred to as the Council of Ministers ) is the institution in the essentially bicameral legislature of the European Union ( EU ) representing the executives of member states, the other legislative body being the European Parliament.

The Parliament of the third republic is also bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

On October 4, 1966, the Kingdom of Lesotho attained full independence, governed by a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral Parliament consisting of a Senate and an elected National Assembly.

From its appearance in the 14th century Parliament has been a bicameral legislature consisting of the Commons and the Lords.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

The Parliament was bicameral, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

Under the 1976 republican Constitution, the British monarch was replaced as head of state by a President chosen by an electoral college composed of the members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

In a bicameral system, it is often the so-called lower house, e. g. the British House of Commons that exercises the major elements of control and oversight ; in some others, e. g. Australia and Italy, the government is constitutionally or by convention answerable to both chambers / Houses of Parliament.

Other major changes included the direct election of the parliaments of the Communities and the Regions, the splitting up of the Province of Brabant into Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant, and the reformation of the Federal Parliament's bicameral system and the relations between the Federal Parliament and the Federal Government.

The lower house of the bicameral Parliament is the Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia ( Majlis al-Nuwaab ), which has 214 seats.

Under this system, France was led by a bicameral Parliament, consisting of an upper chamber called the Council of Elders ( with 250 members ) and a lower chamber called the Council of Five-Hundreds ( with, accordingly, 500 members ) and a collective Executive government of five members called the Directory ( from which the historical period gets its name ).

Barbados ' Parliament consists of the monarch and a bicameral legislature: an elected House of Assembly and an appointed Senate.

Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament, both the upper National Council and the lower National Assembly.

In Afghanistan the term Member of Parliament refers to the members of both chambers of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, the 249 members of the lower Wolesi Jirga ( House of the People ) and the 102 members of the upper Mesherano Jirga ( House of Elders ).

The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats.

For instance, the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan is officially called the Majlis-i-Shura, although the Constitution uses various spellings of the term.

Louis De Geer, the architect behind the new bicameral Parliament of 1866 that replaced the centuries old Riksdag of the Estates, became the first officeholder in 1876.

The European Union maintains a bicameral legislative system which consists of the European Parliament, which is elected in general elections on the basis of universal suffrage, and the Council of the European Union which consists of members of the governments of the Member States which are competent for the relevant field of legislation.

A referendum on introducing a unicameral Parliament instead of the current bicameral Parliament was held in Romania on 22 November 2009.