In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

Using the Emergency-era Internal Security Act ( ISA ), the new government suspended Parliament and political parties, imposed press censorship and placed severe restrictions on political activity.

Col. Lambert, Major Grimes, and Col. Sydenham eventually gained their points, and placed guards both by land and water, to hinder the members of Parliament from approaching the House.

Entering Parliament with his sword borne upright before him, he made for the empty throne and placed his hand upon it, as if to occupy it.

The Marxist view also developed a concept of a “ Revolution within the Revolution ” ( pursued by Hill, Brian Manning and others ) which placed a greater deal of emphasis on the radical movements of the period ( such as the Agitator " Levellers ", Mutineers in the New Model Army and the Communistic " Diggers ") who attempted to go further than Parliament in the aftermath of the Civil War.

In 1988, the last laird, John David Home Robertson, a socialist member of Parliament, placed the house and grounds into the Paxton House Historic Building Preservation Trust.

Under pressure from the barons, led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Henry had to accept the existence of the first English Parliament and other constitutional limitation on the monarchy placed by Provisions of Oxford.

To get even more money, Charles placed the Ship Money tax on the interior counties as well, which angered the English people, because now Charles was creating new taxes without the consent of the Parliament, which was against the ( unwritten ) law.

Morice was placed under house arrest, and seven Members of Parliament were later arrested, but the bills remained in Parliament.

After the dissolution of Parliament in 1621 he was one of those placed under house-arrest in January 1622.

The Irish parliament at that time was subject to a number of restrictions that placed it subservient to the Parliament of England ( and following the union of England and Scotland, the Parliament of Great Britain ).

Charles's assent to the Petition was also made in Parliament, not in Whitehall, something normally done with statutes, and Henry Elsynge, the Clerk of the House of Commons, had the Petition placed on the statute rolls as if it were an Act of Parliament.

Law's official response took the form of an open letter published on 13 January 1913, in which Law offered a compromise that food duties would not be placed before Parliament to vote on until after a second, approving election took place.

On 15 March 2008 another demonstration was held, marking the 5-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq ; although numbers did not match the original demonstrations, around 40, 000 people marched from Trafalgar Square, across the Thames, and back around to Parliament Square, where banners were placed in sight of the House of Commons.

He used what influence he possessed to shield the Puritans from the attacks of the bishops, and often urged the Queen to intervene on behalf of the Protestants in the Low Countries In his speeches in Parliament he argued that a liberal grant of subsidies placed the government under an obligation to redress grievances, and thus identified himself with the popular party in the commons.

This culminated in her being placed fifth on the SNP list for Lothians for the 2003 Parliament election, whereas she had been first in 1999.

Assembling the Parliament on 1 December 1494, he declared that the Parliament of Ireland was thereafter to be placed under the authority of the Parliament of England.

One of his boomerangs was placed on display at the Old Parliament House in Canberra.

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

* No person who has an office under the monarch, or receives a pension from the Crown, can be a Member of Parliament ( MP ).

The Whigs were in favour of reducing the power of The Crown and increasing the power of the Parliament.

After the failed rebellion against the British in 1857, the British Parliament took over the reign of India from the British East India Company, and British India came under the direct rule of the Crown.

Instead, the British Parliament and the Government-chiefly in the office of Prime Minister-exercise their powers under ' Royal ( or Crown ) Prerogative ': on behalf of the Monarch and through powers still formally possessed by the Monarch.

That meant limits on the powers of the Crown, since he found the institutions of Parliament to be better informed than commissions appointed by the executive.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

During the rule of Henry VIII an Act of Parliament declared that ' this realm of England is an Empire ... governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same '.

However, during the reign of James I and thereafter, impeachments became more popular, as they did not require the assent of the Crown, while bills of attainder did, thus allowing Parliament to resist royal attempts to dominate Parliament.

Up until the Glorious Revolution in 1688, the Crown and Parliament were in strong disagreement.

Only by the strongest pressure of the Crown were Parliaments maintained during the first century of their existence and the best proof of this assertion lies in the fact that in those countries where the Crown was weak, Parliament ceased to exist.

This institutional design reflected the conception of how Americans believed the deposed British system of Crown and Parliament ought to have functioned with respect to the royal dominion: a superintending body for matters that concerned the entire empire.

Although the Sovereign still wears the Crown and her prerogative powers are still legally intact, Parliament has removed her from everyday governance, leaving her in practice with three constitutional rights: to be kept informed, to advise, and to warn.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the India Act in 1833, a provision of which transferred control of St Helena from the East India Company to the Crown with effect from 2 April 1834.

The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).

In 1470 William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness ceded his title to James III and the following year the Northern Isles were directly annexed to the Crown of Scotland, a process confirmed by Parliament in 1472.

And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

The powers are delegated from the Monarch personally, in the name of the Crown, and can be handed to various ministers, or other Officers of the Crown, and can purposely bypass the consent of Parliament.

On 14 November, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a resolution to establish a neutral commission to investigate the incidents of June 8 and November 1 and 2.

On 14 November, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a resolution to establish a neutral commission to investigate the incidents of June 8 and November 1 and 2.

Kerr determined that he had both the right and the duty to dismiss the government and commission a new government that would recommend a dissolution of the Parliament.

After several months of deadlock, during which the government secretly explored methods of obtaining supply funding outside the Parliament, Governor-General Sir John Kerr intervened and revoked Whitlam's commission on 11 November 1975.

It was reported that the £ 1, 000 cost of the commission had been supplied by the Prime Minister out of Treasury funds in an attempt to secure the support of Pitt's brother Thomas in Parliament.

Parliament narrowly approved Santer but his commission gained greater support, being approved by 416 votes to 103.

Nevertheless, George still adamantly desired a divorce, and the following day, George submitted the evidence gathered by the Milan commission to Parliament in two green bags.

He was included in the Batasuna electoral ticket and elected to the Basque parliament between 1999 and 2001, where he was appointed as his party's representative in the Human Rights commission at the Basque Parliament, which, given his criminal background caused a stir in the rest of parties.

Knowing that, in the summer, the king had assured the Spanish ambassador that the Parliament would not be allowed to imperil a Spanish matrimonial alliance, he therefore surreptitiously instigated a conflict between the Parliament and the king over the Spanish Match, which resulted in a premature dissolution of the Parliament in December 1621 and a hobbling of the Irish commission in 1622.

The parliamentarian Instrument of Government of 1974 grants the power to commission a prime minister to the Parliament () at the suggestion of the Speaker of the Riksdag.

The new commission will examine how the House of Commons and Parliament as a whole could deal with business that effects only England and is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The following year, Parliament appointed a commission to look at court reform ; this made many recommendations, but none that directly affected the Chancery.

The Belgian Parliament, pushed by Emile Vandervelde and other critics of the King's Congolese policy, forced Leopold to set up an independent commission of inquiry, and despite the King's efforts, in 1905 it confirmed Casement's report.

He received the public thanks of the English Parliament and a monetary reward, and in September 1642 was put in command with a commission direct from the king.

When the Self-denying Ordinance was approved by Parliament he gave up his commission and became one of the leaders of the Independent party in Parliament.

The party manifesto, published on 17 May 1999 and titled " Time to decide ", argued for greater powers for the European Parliament over the European Commission and the European Central Bank, reform of the commission, reduction of countries ' veto powers, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, a European defence and security policy, stronger political and economic ties to the Balkans, and faster EU enlargement in eastern Europe.

Rogers held various honorary positions: he was one of the trustees of the National Gallery ; and he served on a commission to inquire into the management of the British Museum, and on another for the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament.

* Parliament appoints a commission for the propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales, advised by Vavasor Powell.

Based on a subsequent debate in the Scottish Parliament, the three main parties opposed to independence formed the Calman commission.

Parliament decided in 1995 to create a special commission, which was to investigate the possibility of same-sex marriages.