The term “ gag rule ” originated in the mid-1830s when the U. S. House of Representatives barred discussion or referral to committee of antislavery petitions.

* 1836-Original " Gag Rule " imposed when U. S. House of Representatives bars discussion of antislavery petitions

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

The Whigs in the House sought, by use of a joint session majority, to dictate the choice of the two U. S. senators.

The Whigs had gained control of the Tennessee legislature, and redrew Johnson's First District so as to ensure that House seat for their party, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr .; the Nashville Union termed this " Henry-mandering ".

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

Martin Van Buren's only competitors in the 1836 election were the Whigs, who ran several regional candidates in hopes of sending the election to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would have one vote.

After the close 1844 contest, the Democratic advantage widened and the Whigs could win the White House only if the Democrats split.

That would move the election to the House of Representatives, allowing the ascendant Whigs to select their most popular man as president.

During the early part of the era, the House of Commons was headed by the two parties, the Whigs and the Tories.

Russell & Gladstone ( now the senior Liberal in the House of Commons ) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons because of the refusal of the " Adullamite " Whigs, led by Robert Lowe, to support it.

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election ; Winfield Scott, another general, a hero of the War of 1812 and active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838 ; and Henry Clay, the Whigs ' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting general election ( January 1835 ) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne in April 1835.

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

The Whigs now moved into opposition and particularly decried the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, which they attempted to block through their majority in the House of Lords.

The political and popular pressure for reform had grown so great that pro-reform Whigs won an overwhelming House of Commons majority in the general elections of 1831.

At length, the King consented to fill the House of Lords with Whigs ; however, without the knowledge of his cabinet, he circulated a letter among Tory peers, encouraging them to desist from further opposition, and warning them of the consequences of continuing.

The prince was isolated politically when Walpole's Whigs joined the government, and Leicester House played host to literary figures and wits, such as John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift, rather than politicians.

The Duchess of Devonshire campaigned for the Whigs — particularly for a distant cousin, Charles James Fox — at a time when the King ( George III ) and his Ministers had a direct influence over the House of Commons, principally through their power of patronage.

On 6 May 1791, a tearful confrontation on the floor of the Commons ( officially, and rather irrelevantly, during a debate on the particulars of a bill for the government of Canada ) finally shattered the quarter-century friendship of Fox and Burke, as the latter dramatically crossed the floor of the House to sit down next to Pitt, taking the support of a good deal of the more conservative Whigs with him.

After a brief period of Conservative minority government, the Earl of Aberdeen became Prime Minister in a coalition government of Whigs and Peelites ( with Russell taking the role of Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons ).

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

Rockingham believed that the revolution in British politics since George III's accession was harmful to the country, since it removed the Whigs from their ascendancy which had settled the constitution and secured the House of Hanover on the British throne.

The party in the administration of Robert Harley ( created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer on 23 May 1711 ) and the Viscount Bolingbroke proved more flexible at the bargaining table and were characterised by the Whigs as " pro-French "; Oxford and Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new " Tory peers " to ensure ratification of the treaty in the House of Lords.

Daniel personally led the fight for the measure, which he had watered down considerably since its rejection by two previous Legislatures, in a public hearing before the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

The party was part of all three House of Freedoms coalition governments led by Silvio Berlusconi.

The admission of the middle classes to the franchise and to the House of Commons led eventually to the development of a systematic middle class liberalism and the end of Whiggery, although for many years reforming aristocrats held senior positions in the party.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

It led to the system of Constitutional Monarchy, with further reforms shifting the balance of power from the monarchy and nobility to the House of Commons.

Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

Jacqueline Kennedy led an effort to redecorate and restore the White House while she was First Lady.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel stated that it was important " to not have the CNN's and the others in the world basically be led in following Fox ".

* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.

A succession crisis following the death of the last Capetian monarch in 1337 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years ' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

He failed in both the Senate and House, and the Jay Treaty led to ten years of prosperous trade with Britain ( and anger on the part of France leading to the Quasi-War ).

The predominant faction, the " War Hawks ," were led by House Speaker Henry Clay.

On March 17, 1910, after two failed attempts to curb Cannon's absolute power in the House, Nebraska Representative George Norris led a coalition of 42 progressive Republicans and the entire delegation of 149 Democrats in a revolt.

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

Before drafting the specific terms of his peace deal, Wilson recruited a team led by Colonel House to compile information deemed pertinent in assessing Europe ’ s geo-political situation.

Batman, who had previously forbidden any attempt to unseat Luthor from office by force, led the storming of the White House.

Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister ; the Malaysian constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be a member of the Lower House of parliament who, in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( YDPA ), commands a majority in parliament.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

Eventually, this protectiveness led to her consulting an astrologer, Joan Quigley, who offered insight on which days were " good ", " neutral ", or should be avoided, which influenced her husband's White House schedule.

Kinnock was a long-time critic of the House of Lords, and his acceptance of a peerage led him to be accused of hypocrisy, by Will Self, among others.

When Ehud Olmert was serving in his post as Mayor of Jerusalem, he led efforts to protest against the way Orient House was functioning, refusing to meet with Faisal Husseini and demanding that Orient House pay 300, 000 USD in municipal taxes.