Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics, if the present system is still in operation, will constitute almost one-third of the House of Lords in the next generation '' ; ;

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

In debates in the House of Lords, the archbishop is referred to as " The Most Reverend Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury ".

* The adoption of those recommendations of the recent House of Lords enquiry into Science and Heritage which have a potential impact on the future of museums.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

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.

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.

It was at this time that a political battle over the so-called People's Budget resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation.

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 ).

His son, the fourth Baron, held office in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath and was later a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

If the Commons carries the motion, the mover receives orders to go to the bar at the House of Lords and to impeach the accused " in the name of the House of Commons, and all the commons of the United Kingdom.

The mover must tell the Lords that the House of Commons will, in due time, exhibit particular articles against the accused, and make good the same.

Lynch further accused Benson of creating a “ culture of corruption ” and cronyism at the State House.

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.

* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.

In an extraordinary personal attack in the House, Page accused Menzies of cowardice for not having enlisted in the War, and of treachery to Lyons.

His offence was slandering William Lenthall, the Speaker of the House of Commons, whom he accused of corresponding with Royalists.

Heath, who had himself applied to be the Conservative candidate for the by-election, accused the government in an October Union Debate of " turning all four cheeks " to Hitler, and was elected as President of the Oxford Union in November 1938, sponsored by Balliol, after winning the Presidential Debate that " This House has No Confidence in the National Government as presently constituted ".

While widely regarded as a reliable source, in the past some critics have accused Freedom House ’ s reports of bias or of promoting U. S. government interests abroad.

" The only account of the speech written down at the time by an eyewitness ( which came to light many years later ) records that Henry apologized after being accused of uttering treasonable words, and assured the House that he was loyal to the king.

It is possible for the House of Commons to refuse to press for judgment, in which case the accused, though convicted, is not subjected to punishment.

The accused may not, under the Act of Settlement 1701, plead a pardon to avoid trial in the House of Lords ; the same rule does not apply in the lower courts.

The 1926 novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers depicts the ( fictional ) trial in the House of Lords of a duke who is accused of murder, and eventually acquitted.

Austria reserves the right to continue to exile members of the House of Habsburg, and limits the rights of the accused and the right to a fair trial to those already existing in its legal system.

Nixon accused Gahagan of being soft on Communism because of her opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In the United States, the impeachment process begins in the House of Representatives, where the president is first accused of committing either bribery, treason, or other high crimes including misdemeanors.

He took up the impeachment of Laud to the House of Peers, supported the Londoners ' petition for the abolition of episcopacy and the Root and Branch Bill, and afterwards urged that the bishops impeached for their conduct in the affair of the late canons should be accused of treason.

In 1669, he faced expulsion from the House of Commons to which he had been elected in 1661 to represent Portsmouth, for misconduct as Vice Chamberlain, being accused of embezzlement.

In both cases, the claims of the exiled House of Stuart were marginal to other causes of war, but were an important propaganda point in Great Britain itself, as both James II and James Francis Edward were accused of allying with foreigners to force Catholicism on the British people.

He was accused by Macaulay in the House of Commons of conspiring with Hastings to commit a judicial murder by having unjustly hanged Nandakumar ; but the whole question of the trial of Nuncomar was examined in detail by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, who stated that " no man ever had, or could have, a fairer trial than Nuncomar, and Impey in particular behaved with absolute fairness and as much indulgence as was compatible with his duty.

Several actors from The American President reappear in The West Wing, including Martin Sheen ( whose character in President, A. J., is at one point accused by Shepherd of lacking the courage to run for office himself ) as President Josiah Bartlet, Anna Deavere Smith as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally, Joshua Malina as White House Communications Director Will Bailey, Nina Siemaszko as Ellie Bartlet, Ron Canada as Under Secretary of State Theodore Barrow, and Thom Barry as Congressman Mark Richardson.

When Richard of the House of York ascended to the throne as Richard III in 1483, Lewknor was accused of treason and of raising men-at-arms in southeast England.

In two interrogations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the composer was accused of being " the Karl Marx of music " and the chief Soviet agent in Hollywood.

The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a Communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers.