Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

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Debates surrounding the emission of bonds have stalled the approval of the national budget for many months on several occasions, reason for which in 2006 the government will finance the deficit by reducing expenditure in other posts.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Debates on medical science now had two traditions, the more conservative Arabian and the liberal Greek.

Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.

" Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

The Corkbush Field rendezvous on November 17, 1647, was the first of three meetings to take place as agreed in the Putney Debates.

Debates on the Virginia resolutions continued.

Debates were covered on front pages of college newspapers and emphasized in yearbooks, and team members even received the equivalent of athletic letters for their jackets.

Debates on global warming and its causes made significant progress, as climate change denials were refuted by most scientific studies.

One common explanation for the decline was Perot's exclusion from the presidential debates, based on the preferences of the Democratic and Republican party candidates ( as described by George Farah in Open Debates ).

In 1647, different factions of the victorious parliamentary army held a series of discussions, the Putney Debates, on reforming the structure of English government.

Pressure grew for the abolition of the selective principle underlying the " eleven plus ", and replacement with Comprehensive schools which would serve the full range of children ( see the article Debates on the grammar school ).

While the proclaimed goal was to level school quality up, the converse claim was made that the grammar schools ' excellence was being sacrificed with little to show in the way of improvement of other schools ( for details and sources on this and related arguments, see article on Debates on the grammar school ).

Debates of the House of Commons in the Year 1774 on the Bill for Making More Effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec: Drawn Up from the Notes of the Henry Cavendish, Member for Lostwithiel, London: Ridgway, 303 p. ( online )

The authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of speeches made on the House floor.

Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Cobden – Chevalier Treaty | Treaty of France in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip ( 1863 ).

The ' Treaty Debates ' should also be seen as the first publicly reported debate on what Sinn Féin felt that it had achieved and could achieve.

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News reference volume of the term " golden parachute " spiked in late 2008 during the global economic recession, and 2008 US Presidential Debates.

In what became known as the Gag Rule Debates, abolitionists flooded the Congress with anti-slavery petitions to end slavery and the slave trade in Washington, D. C.

Debates did take place during the 1950s at the British Parliament in Westminster in which it was discussed that Hong Kong would have to be handed back to China if the colony's entrepôt trade could not be maintained.

These debates are known as the Putney Debates, and were held in St. Mary's Church, Putney, in the county of Surrey, between October 28 and November 11, 1647.

The names under which parliamentary debates were published include Proceedings of the Lower Room of the Robin Hood Society and Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia.

Cobbett's reports were printed by Thomas Curson Hansard from 1809 ; in 1812, with his business suffering, Cobbett sold the Debates to Hansard.

The Barbara Jordan Youth Debates, made possible by the Kaiser Family Foundation, were held for urban debaters.

He may have written parts of The Case of the Army Stated, and he put the views of his associates before the Council of the Army at the Putney Debates that were partly held in Putney parish church between 28 October and 11 November 1647.

Debates were a major factor again in 1980.

Debates between the Socialist Party of Great Britain and other groups were of particular importance in bringing the party case to an outside audience without the sometimes off-putting rhetoric of platform speaking, or the one-sidedness of educational talks.

The presidential debates were initially moderated in 1976, 1980, 1984 by the League of Women Voters, but The Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ) was established in 1987 by the Republican and Democratic parties.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Stephen Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois, and Abraham Lincoln, the Republican who sought to replace Douglas in the Senate.

The Lincoln – Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

Debates into its meaning were intense and relentless ; the play's most vocal critic complained not only of the play's nonsensical phrasing but also its frequent use of semicolons.

The Debates were founded by Sebastian in 2004 and their fifth series begins in September 2008.

Debates were held over the issues, though usually positions had already hardened beyond persuasion.

The disagreements were aired publicly at the Putney Debates, which started in late October 1647 and lasted for several weeks.

Debates over the Manitoba Schools Question were particularly divisive, and brought down the government of Sir Mackenzie Bowell.

All four debates were sponsored by the non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ), which has organized presidential debates since its establishment in 1987.

Three presidential debates were scheduled by the Commission on Presidential Debates:

Apart from large-scale events which were held in the Union Diner, debates continued to be held in the Council Chamber of the Men ’ s Union, the President of the Union Debating Society continued to be elected as Union Convenor of Debates, and the President continued to be supported by a small Debates Board.

Debates about scripture were underway in the mid-2nd century, concurrent with a drastic increase of new scriptures, both Jewish and Christian.

Debates over differing interpretations of peaceful coexistence were one aspect of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1950s and 1960s.

At the funeral of Thomas Rainsborough ( a Member of Parliament and also a Leveller leader who had spoken at the Putney Debates ) there were thousands of mourners wearing the Levellers ' ribbons of sea-green and bunches of rosemary for remembrance in their hats, as there were the next year, 1649, at the funeral of Robert Lockyer a New Model Army Agitator hanged by Oliver Cromwell for mutiny.