The holiday was officially renamed as a result of a private member's bill that was introduced in the House of Commons when only twelve Members of Parliament were present.

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The Maritimes is currently represented in the Canadian Parliament by 25 Members of the House of Commons ( Nova Scotia-11, New Brunswick-10, Prince Edward Island-4 ) and 24 Senators ( Nova Scotia and New Brunswick-10 each, Prince Edward Island-4 ).

The term general election in the United Kingdom often refers to the election of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) to the House of Commons.

* In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the raucous exchange of accusations and insults between rival Members, especially at Prime Minister's Questions, has become known as " Punch and Judy politics ".

However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maintain administrative stability, the viceroy will call to form a government the individual most likely to receive the support, or confidence, of a majority of the directly-elected House of Commons ; as a practical matter, this is often the leader of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

Prime ministers who are not Members of Parliament upon their appointment ( or who lose their seats while in office ) have since been expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible.

In this they were successful ; the abandoned Commons Chamber, on the other hand, was completely destroyed, as was the Members ' Lobby.

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Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.

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The picture includes some 375 figures and although Hayter abandoned the idea of depicting all 658 Members of the reformed Commons he maintained the relative proportions of the parties.

According to its preamble, the act was designed to " take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament.

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In the House of Commons, at least 100 Members must vote in favour of the motion for cloture to be adopted ; the Speaker of the House of Commons may choose to deny the cloture motion if he or she feels that insufficient debate has occurred, or that the procedure is being used to violate the rights of the minority.

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Twenty Scottish Members of Parliament signed a House of Commons motion in March 2005 condemning him for comparing supposed Scottish dominance at Westminster to British rule in India: a " Scottish Raj " was running the UK, said Paxman.

He received a resounding vote of thanks from the 200 + Members of Parliament who had arrived to question him, both for his candour and for his efforts to keep the troops armed ; Sir Ivor Herbert, who, a week before, had introduced the failed vote of censure in the House of Commons against Kitchener's running of the War Department, personally seconded the motion.

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In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

Members of The Algol staff are nominated by the editor and business manager and appointed by the Publications Board.

Members of the young set who would like to come to the party only during the dancing time are welcomed.

Members are on their way to Saledo, not by stage coach, but in air-conditioned cars.

Members of this order with smooth skins are commonly referred to as frogs while those with warted skins are known as toads.

Members of the family Bufonidae are known as the " true toads ".

Members of this order are eel-like aquatic salamanders with much reduced forelimbs and no hind limbs.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.

Members of the subfamily are found worldwide, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

Members and officers of ASASU are elected annually by the student body.

Members of the Legislative Assembly are elected via the Hare Clarke system.

Members are encouraged to find an experienced fellow alcoholic, called a sponsor, to help them understand and follow the AA program.

Members are rapper J-Ax ( real name Alessandro Aleotti ) and DJ Jad ( Vito Luca Perrini ).

Members of the Branchiopoda are unified by the presence of gills on many of the animals ' appendages, including some of the mouthparts.

Members of the parliament are chosen according to a proportional representation system.

Members serve four-year terms ; elections are held every four years, or earlier in the relatively rare case that the Bundestag is dissolved prematurely by the president.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected in this way.

Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

Members of the 2012 U. S. Navy Blue Angels are:

However, Canada has evolved variations: party discipline in Canada is stronger than in the United Kingdom and more parliamentary votes are considered motions of confidence, which tends to diminish the role of non-Cabinet Members of Parliament ( MPs ).