The Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March.

The British Parliament, disturbed by the idea that a great business concern, interested primarily in profit, was controlling the destinies of millions of people, passed acts in 1773 and 1784 that gave itself the power to control company policies and to appoint the highest company official in India, the Governor-General.

* Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660

The idea that courts could declare statutes void was defeated in England with the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when King James II was removed and the elected Parliament declared itself supreme.

Names of many institutions ( including the army ) were stripped of the " royal " adjective and the Raj Parishad ( a council of the King's advisers ) was abolished, with his duties assigned to the Parliament itself.

In his speech opening Parliament in 1835, the King assured the members that the fire was accidental, and left it to Parliament itself to make " plans for permanent accommodation.

Even the Reichstag itself, the German Parliament, occupied the former home of the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 47 ) in Leipziger Straße before moving in 1894 to the vast new edifice near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by Paul Wallot ( 1841 – 1912 ).

The Statute of Autonomy is the basic organic institutional law, approved by the legislature of the community itself as well as by the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament.

Although there is little doubt that the writers of the Second Amendment were heavily influenced by the English Bill of Rights, it is a matter of interpretation as to whether they were intent on preserving the power to regulate arms to the states over the federal government ( as the English Parliament had reserved for itself against the monarch ) or whether it was intent on creating a new right akin to the right of others written into the Constitution ( as the Supreme Court recently decided ).

** The Parliament of Finland, dominated by Social Democrats, passes the " Power Law ", declaring itself holder of the former Tsar's sovereignty in the Grand Principality of Finland.

** The Parliament of Finland again declares itself holder of sovereignty, effectively dissolving the 108-year-old union with Russia.

The Long Parliament dissolved itself and for the first time in almost 20 years, there was a general election.

The rapporteurs are MEPs appointed by Committees to prepare the parliament ’ s response to the Commission ’ s proposal and to those measures taken by the Parliament itself.

Parliament has made itself a bastion against the transformations.

The dismissal was by then publicly known, and an angry crowd of ALP supporters had gathered, filling the steps and spilling over both into the roadway and into Parliament House itself.

Since the Crown was itself a hereditary dignity, it seemed natural for seats in the upper House of Parliament to be so as well.

The Federal Parliament itself has decided that the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory should have at least one member each.

The Liberals made reducing the power of the Lords an important issue of the January 1910 general election. It was held that the 1911 Act clearly permits the procedures specified in the Parliament Acts to be used for " any Public Bill ", and this was sufficient to dispose of the argument that the 1911 Act could not be used to amend itself.

The subsequent Court of Appeal ruling agreed that the 1949 Act itself was valid, but left open the question of whether the Commons could use the Parliament Act to make significant changes to the constitution ( for example, repealing the Parliament Act's provision prohibiting the Act from being used to extend the lifespan of Parliament ).

A special implementation by law of the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht determines that certain European Community decisions having force of treaty have to be approved by Parliament prior to even the conclusion itself.

" Article 153 itself expressly forbids particular forms of discrimination ; clause 5 states that " All persons of whatever race in the same grade in the service of the Federation shall, subject to the terms and conditions of their employment, be treated impartially ," while clause 9 states: " Nothing in this Article shall empower Parliament to restrict business or trade solely for the purpose of reservations for Malays.

It opined that the Law Commission had been unduly cautious by limiting the scope to murder and that " the exceptions should [...] extend to other grave offences punishable with life and / or long terms of imprisonment as Parliament might specify.

As of mid 2010, the Congolese Parliament is debating a new defence law, provisionally designated Organic Law 130.

The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination passed by the Federal Parliament of Belgium in 1981 which made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal.

* 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

There are three sources of Law: Acts of Parliament called Statutes, Statutory Regulations ( made by a Secretary of State under an Act of Parliament ) and Case Law ( developed by various Courts ).

The Natural Law Party never won any seats in Parliament, and was removed from the register of official political parties in February 2001.

" in Law, Liberty, and Parliament: Selected Essays on the Writings of Sir Edward Coke, ed.

* 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

Defoe's A Review, published on 3 December 1709 and demanding " a Law in the present Parliament ... for the Encouragement of Learning, Arts, and Industry, by securing the Property of Books to the Authors or Editors of them ", was followed by How's Some Thoughts on the Present State of Printing and Bookselling, which hoped that Parliament " might think fit to secure Property in Books by a Law ".

No law and no provision of any law made after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Dominion shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the Law of England, or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule, or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Parliament of a Dominion shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule, or regulation insofar as the same is part of the law of the Dominion.

* Poynings ' Law comes into effect, placing the Parliament of Ireland under the authority of the Parliament of England.

The comarca is a commonwealth, or union, of municipalities with competences in several fields ( Law 6 / 1987 of the Parliament of Catalonia ).

However in 1963 the " Specific Relief Act " was passed by the Parliament of India following the recommendation of the Law Commission of India and repealing the earlier " Specific Relief Act " of 1877.

To the south of this region is where the neo-Gothic City Hall ( 1889 ) is to be found, as well as the Victoria Law Courts ( 1887 ), the Parliament Building ( 1829 – 1834 ), the large Stabroek Market ( 1792 ) containing the prominent cast-iron clock tower that dominates the city sky line, the Roman Catholic Brickdam Cathedral, City Engineer House, the Magistrate's Court, St. Andrew's Kirk ( 1818 ) and Independence Arch.

She worked for Unilever ( 1973 – 75 ) and then as an administrator at the University of London ( 1975 – 87 ) before entering Parliament.

A member of the Labour Party, Dewar worked as a solicitor in Glasgow, but soon tried to get elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

He worked with the Parliament of Paris in order to improve the professionalism of his legal administration.

This approach worked well as long as Parliament was also predominantly Tory.

The incumbent worked with his Cabinet and other government officials ; he occasionally met with the Sovereign, and attended Parliament when it was in session during the spring and summer.

In December 1967, two members of Britain's Parliament worked out an interim agreement by which for one year a British official would exercise basic administrative authority along with the Anguilla Council.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

Clark worked very hard, and gradually earned the respect of most people, including his own caucus, by presenting a series of well thought out speeches and questions in Parliament.

Though their parties are often at loggerheads, Hume and Paisley worked jointly on behalf of Northern Ireland in the European Parliament and on occasion worked jointly in the British House of Commons.

Out of Parliament Scrymgeour worked as an evangelical Chaplain at East House and Maryfield Hospital in Dundee.

He later worked on Alton Towers and the Houses of Parliament.

Before entering Parliament he worked for N M Rothschild & Sons, the investment bank, and became director of Rothschild Asset Management.

He worked as a lawyer until he was elected Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament for the riding ( electoral district ) of Sherbrooke in the 1984 election.

She worked as a lawyer from 1981 until 1987, when she was elected to the Finnish Parliament ( Eduskunta ).

He worked a brief stint as a TV news announcer before joining the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador as a political aide to former federal Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Federal Cabinet Minister Don Jamieson.

Henry was elected to Parliament in 1558, probably because of Oxford's influence, and from the later 1550s Arthur worked on a translation of Pompeius Trogus that he planned to dedicate to Oxford.

Ferrar entered the Parliament of England and worked with Sir Edwin Sandys.

During his time in Parliament he worked towards free trade and opposed the Corn Laws and home rule for Ireland.

Since leaving Parliament, he has worked in the media and served as Chairman of the government's ' Football Task Force '.

In Parliament, he worked with several left-wing Labour MPs, some of whom would be expelled by their party as crypto-communists and form the Labour Independent Group.

Prior to entering Parliament, Smith worked for Northumberland County Council, managed an Advice Centre in Dundee and was Constituency Assistant to North East Fife MP, Sir Menzies Campbell.

This provision worked against Bjelke-Petersen when, in the dying days of his government in November 1987, he tried and failed to convince Governor Sir Walter Campbell to remove several ministers to shore up his own support within Parliament.

At the same time, she worked as an expert-consultant in international law for the Parliament of Georgia and the Ministry for Environment Protection and Natural Resources.