At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

In an interview with Metro in September 2006 she stated that if Parliament were of a normal length, it was likely she would retire at the next general election .< ref >

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

Having witnessed the events firsthand, she was later infuriated that she was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament about the day, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in the House.

In other words, if an ' uninhabited ' or ' infidel ' territory is colonized by Britain, then the English law automatically applies in this territory from the moment of colonization ; however if the colonized territory has a pre-existing legal system, the native law would apply ( effectively a form of indirect rule ) until formally superseded by the English law, through Royal Prerogative subjected to the Westminster Parliament.

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.

It had a reconstructed Croatian Parliament which would choose a Croatian Ban and Viceban.

Cromwell saw Barebone's Parliament as a temporary legislative body which he hoped would produce reforms and develop a constitution for the Commonwealth.

Parliament reluctantly agreed to the marriage, with the promise from both James and Charles that the marriage would not entail a liberty of religion being accorded to any Roman Catholic not of the Princess ' own household.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

In 1885, to get rid of habitual criminals and to increase the number of colonists, the French Parliament passed a law that anyone, male or female, who had more than three sentences for theft of more than three months each, would be sent to French Guiana as a " relégué.

After the forcible dissolution of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell, the Grandees of the Army Council of Officers were reluctant to authorise free elections because they were aware that the members returned by the traditional constituency would return Presbyterians and Royalists as well as their own sympathisers.

In 1687, James prepared to pack Parliament with his supporters so that it would repeal the Test Act and the penal laws.

Zuylestein was sent in part to see how successful, or amenable, James's packed Parliament would be, and have discussions with English statesmen, with Zuylestein sending back to William letters from them.

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.

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.

This would give England a local Parliament like those already functioning for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

The first number appeared on 20 November 1797, with a notice that " the publication would be continued every Monday during the sitting of Parliament ".

He believed that good would triumph in the Parliament, and pushed for human rights legislation just as he wished for a unified Germany.

By June 2003, the lower house of Parliament announced that President Akayev and two other " puppet " leaders of Kyrgyzstan, from the Soviet era, would be given lifetime immunity from prosecution, raising the prospect of Akayev finally stepping down.

The draft bill, which would increase the executive powers of the monarch, went before Parliament for a first reading in November.

St-Laurent was encouraged by others to reach out to the CCF and at least four of six independent / small party MPs to form a coalition majority government, which would have held 134 of the 265 seats in Parliament — 50. 1 % of the total.

Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

This interpretation suggests that the " English Revolution " was the final act in the long process of reform and consolidation by Parliament to achieve a balanced constitutional monarchy in Britain, and laws were made that pointed towards freedom.

In August 2003, He announced before Parliament his " absolute last " effort to achieve peace with Pakistan.

Fox became convinced that the King was determined to challenge the authority of Parliament and the balance of the constitution established in 1688, and to achieve Continental-style tyranny.

According to political scientist Trond Nordby, Jagland felt that a cabinet which achieved less than 36. 9 % would not be suited to achieve meaningful results in the face of a superior Parliament.

While the Statute of Westminster 1931 declared that the Parliament of Canada possessed extraterritorial jurisdiction, the provincial legislatures did not achieve similar status.

The passing of the Parliament Act 1911 limited the Lords to a two year delaying power and ensured that Redmond ’ s reward of a Government of Ireland Bill for the whole of Ireland introduced in 1912 would subsequently achieve national self-government in Dublin by 1914.

The Amsterdam Treaty meant a greater emphasis on citizenship and the rights of individuals, an attempt to achieve more democracy in the shape of increased powers for the European Parliament, a new title on employment, a Community area of freedom, security and justice, the beginnings of a common foreign and security policy ( CFSP ) and the reform of the institutions in the run-up to enlargement.

It is interesting to note that David Cecil, the only man to achieve the Great Court Run prior to 2007, and Sebastian Coe, the man who came closest to achieving the feat between Cecil's and Dobin's successes, both achieved the multiple distinctions of Olympic Champion, Member of both Houses of Parliament, and Chairman of London Olympics Organising Committee ( David Cecil, 1948 Olympics ; Sebastian Coe, 2012 Olympics ).

Defending himself, he said speeches in the European Parliament did not achieve a great deal as they are to empty chambers with no-one listening.

In a moving farewell speech to Parliament Wijetunga cited Shakespeare's oft-quoted line " Do not be afraid of greatness, Some men are born great, Some achieve greatness, And some have greatness thrust upon them.

The Frankfurt Parliament ended in partial failure: while the liberals did not achieve the unification they sought, they did manage to work through many constitutional issues and collaborative reforms with the German princes.

On 21 April 1856 Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne stopped work and marched from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an Eight hour day.

The electors approved by a percentage of 77. 78 % ( 50. 95 % turnout ) the adoption of a unicameral Parliament, however as of 2012 the necessary constitutional changes to achieve this have not been put into effect.

In 1992, the heretofore one-party-dominant politics in India gave way to a coalition system wherein no single party can expect to achieve a majority in the Parliament to form a government, but rather has to depend on a process of coalition building with other parties to form a block and claim a majority to be invited to form the government.

Fitzwilliam was chosen to open the debate on the address at the opening of the next session of Parliament in 1786, and said that " The wisdom of Ireland had accomplished what the prudence of this country could not achieve ".

His first successful parliamentary by-election campaign was Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, 1979, he went on to be agent for the Liverpool Mossley Hill ( UK Parliament constituency ) constituency of David Alton ( now Lord Alton of Liverpool ) and helped to achieve a winning 14 % swing against the Conservatives in 1983.

Steele was also the first South Australian woman to achieve Cabinet rank in the South Australian Parliament as Minister of Education in the Hall Government from 1968 to 1969.

After receiving more than 1. 5 million votes ( the largest vote ever for any deputy ) in the 2002 elections, and thus taking with him five other party members to the Parliament, the party president Enéas Carneiro failed to achieve such a success in the 2006 elections.

Compromís ' results ( seven seats ) did not achieve their goal of growing and forming a front alongside the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) to oust the Partido Popular from the regional government, but allowed Bloc to enter the autonomous Parliament ( two seats ) and secured EUPV representation as well ( the remaining five seats ).

He was very narrowly elected as a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 but resigned at the end of the year, disillusioned at his failure to achieve office and having decided that he was uncomfortable with the mode of politics.