When Parliament passed the first of the Contagious Diseases Acts in 1864 ( which allowed the local constabulary to force any woman suspected of venereal disease to submit to its inspection ), Josephine Butler's crusade to repeal the CD Acts yoked the anti-prostitution cause with the emergent feminist movement.

The poll resulted in candidates including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England ; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England ; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews ; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916 ; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for the former Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em star Michael Crawford.

In 1495, Parliament passed a statute ordering officials to seize " ll such vagabonds, idle and suspected persons living suspiciously and then so taken and set in stocks, there to remain by the space of three days and three nights to have none other sustenance but bread and water, and there after the said three days and three nights, to be had out and set at large and then to be commanded to avoid the town.

The same day the House appointed a Committee of Safety, with authority to seize and secure such as might justly be suspected of any design to disturb the public peace, and also to remove such officers of the army as they should think fit, and to fill their places with others, till the Parliament should take farther order therein.

The Prevention of Terrorism Acts were a series of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1989 that conferred emergency powers upon police forces where they suspected terrorism.

He was suspected as a plotter because he briefly employed Guy Fawkes as a footman and stayed away from Parliament on 5 November following a warning from Robert Catesby.

The English Parliament had long suspected the true intentions of the Scots.

Within a week of her death, in an emergency session of the Parliament, the Government altered the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland to allow the High Court to freeze the assets of suspected drug barons.

Wigg also played an important part in the aftermath of the failed prosecution of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams by questioning in Parliament the unusual conduct of the Prosecution led by Attorney-General, Reginald Manningham-Buller.

( To an extent, Parliament had caused this situation by enacting the Self-denying Ordinance, by which members of both Houses of Parliament were deprived of military office, a measure originally introduced to replace some high-ranking officers who were suspected of disloyalty or defeatism.

The Victorian branch then split between pro-Evatt and pro-Santamaria factions, and in March the pro-Evatt State Executive suspended 24 members of State Parliament suspected of being Santamaria supporters.

The suspected terrorists dressed in commando fatigues entered Parliament in a car through the VIP gate of the building.

The Chinese government is suspected of orchestrating an attack on the email network used by the Parliament of Australia, allowing unauthorized access to thousands of emails and compromising the computers of several senior Australian politicians including Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, and Minister of Defense Stephen Smith.

In 1722 he entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Launceston in Cornwall ; but, being suspected of favoring the cause of the exiled Stuarts, he spent half of that year in the Tower.

The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

Barebone's Parliament was opposed by former Rumpers and ridiculed by many gentry as being an assembly of ' inferior ' people.

As the franchise was increased, it also was made more uniform, as many so-called rotten boroughs, with a handful of voters electing a Member of Parliament, were eliminated in the Reform Act of 1832.

Dublin grew even more dramatically during the 18th century, with the construction of many famous districts and buildings, such as Merrion Square, Parliament House and the Royal Exchange.

The arrest of Feake and Powell was sufficient for a time to dampen their ardour, but many of the delegates to Barebone's Parliament were from congregations with Fifth Monarchist sympathies.

This is certainly true for the Prime Ministers, but there are many Ministers and Members of Parliament with no relation to political families.

The " Declaration Toward a Global Ethic " from the Parliament of the World ’ s Religions ( 1993 ) proclaimed the Golden Rule (" We must treat others as we wish others to treat us ") as the common principle for many religions.

As the Secretary of War told Parliament in 1751, " I am for having always in our army as many Scottish soldiers as possible ... because they are generally more hardy and less mutinous ".

Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months.

Under Nehru, the Indian Parliament enacted many changes to Hindu law to criminalize caste discrimination and increase the legal rights and social freedoms of women.

However many of these original members of Long Parliament, such as were barred from the final acts of the Long Parliament and executed by King Charles II upon his restoration, claimed that the Long Parliament was never legally dissolved.

This statement may be verified by the many executions of key Parliament members and Generals after the restoration of King Charles II.

He was instrumental in the apparent death of Swamp Thing, which jeopardized many lives as the Parliament of Trees attempted to replace him.

The President heads the executive branch and appoints the Cabinet ; Like many presidential democracies, each member of the cabinet need to be approved by the Parliament.

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.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

In 1402, the English Parliament issued the Penal Laws against Wales, anti-Welsh legislation designed to establish English dominance in Wales, but actually pushing many Welshmen into the rebellion.

Scattered across 800 years, the British constitution consists of many documents — such as Magna Carta ( 1215 ), the Great Reform Bill ( 1832 ), and the Parliament Act ( 1911 )— and, most important for the evolution of the office of Prime Minister, customs known as conventions that became accepted practice.

He also implemented many procedural reforms, to make Parliament and the Liberal caucus meetings run more efficiently, significantly expanded the size and role of the Prime Minister's office, and substantially expanded the welfare state, with the establishment of new programmes, and significant improvements in existing ones, with welfare payments to the aged, the young, and the underprivileged greatly expanded in an attempt to bring about a European-style social democracy in Canada.

Another interesting record of medieval rhetorical thought can be seen in the many animal debate poems popular in England and the continent during the Middle Ages, such as The Owl and the Nightingale ( 13th century ) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls ( 1382?

This meant, for example, that many constitutional changes continued to require the intervention of the British Parliament, although only with the request and the consent of the Dominions as mentioned above.

The reason for the delay in relation to Canada and Australia was because the Statute still did not clarify the ability of the British Parliament to legislate concerning the Provinces of Canada, especially Quebec, which raised many objections, and the States of Australia.

Steele lost his seat in Parliament, and his personal quarrel with Swift, by now a public issue, thus reached its climax.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

It established in England the office of the Secretary of State for India through whom the Parliament would exercise its rule, along with a Council of India to aid him.

Costa Rica has sought concrete economic ties with its Central American neighbors rather than the establishment of regional political institutions, and it chose not to join the Central American Parliament.

On the other side, the Parliament on Cetin chose Ferdinand I of the House of Habsburg as new ruler of Croatia, under the condition that he provide protection to Croatia against the Ottoman Empire while respecting its political rights.

The development of the Council has been characterised by the rise in power of the Parliament, with which the Council has had to share its legislative powers.

Following its first reading the Parliament may propose amendments.

At its second reading, if the Parliament approves the text or does not act, the text is adopted, otherwise the Parliament may propose further amendments to the Council's proposal.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.

Charles was defeated in the First Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ), after which Parliament expected him to accept its demands for a constitutional monarchy.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.

The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta, which explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became English writ of habeas corpus, safeguarding individual freedom against unlawful imprisonment with right to appeal.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

After the March Revolution of 1848, the German Confederation handed over its authority to the Frankfurt Parliament, and Eastern Prussia joined the Confederation.

* 1983 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.

When ratified, this was to give Scotland its first Parliament for nearly 300 years.

The European Parliament stated in its report that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system.