The House adopted eleven articles of impeachment, for the most part bearing on Johnson's violation of the Tenure of Office Act in his dismissal of Stanton and appointment of Thomas.

Although it appears clear that Badminton House, Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke of Beaufort, has given its name to the sports, it is unclear when and why the name was adopted.

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.

They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

Resolutions may be voted on jointly or by each House, in the latter case requiring passage in all Houses to be adopted by the particular council.

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

The House of Delegates adopted the Reference Committee report [...]( AMA Proceedings, JAMA, September 1958: 57 )

The House rejected the idea of placing the amendements in the body of the Constitution and instead adopted 17 Amendments to be attached separately and sent this bill to the Senate.

" Still, the House of Lords has remained reluctant to overrule itself in some cases ; in R v Kansal ( 2002 ), the majority of House members adopted the opinion that R v Lambert had been wrongly decided and agreed to depart from their earlier decision.

Instead, he arranged to have himself adopted into the Fujiwara Regents House, and secured a succession of high imperial court titles including, in 1585 the prestigious position of regent ( kampaku ).

In 1835 the House of Representatives adopted the Gag Rule, barring abolitionist petitions calling for the end of slavery.

It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865.

* August 21 – A proposal for a Bill of Rights is adopted by the United States House of Representatives.

It was adopted in 1793 following Vermont's admission to the Union in 1791 and is largely based upon the 1777 Constitution of Vermont which was ratified at Windsor in the Old Constitution House.

This clause, proposed by the Tory Marquess of Chandos, was adopted in the House of Commons despite opposition from the Government.

In 1886, following the death of Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks in the previous year, a new Presidential Succession Act was adopted, replacing the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House on the list with the members of the Cabinet.

On August 21, 1952, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus at its annual meeting adopted a resolution urging that the change be made universal and copies of this resolution were sent to the President, the Vice President ( as Presiding Officer of the Senate ) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives later adopted the latter proposal.

A motion for cloture may be adopted in both the House of Commons and in the House of Lords by a simple majority of those voting.

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.

After both chambers had made some amendments the House of Peers approved the document on 6 October ; it was adopted in the same form by the House of Representatives the following day, with only five members voting against, and finally became law when it received the Emperor's assent on 3 November.

Schley County Rep. B. D. Pelham will offer a resolution Monday in the House to rescind the body's action of Friday in voting itself a $10 per day increase in expense allowances.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

Rep. Mac Barber of Commerce is asking the House in a privilege resolution to `` endorse increased federal support for public education, provided that such funds be received and expended '' as state funds.

The resolution, which Barber tossed into the House hopper Friday, will be formally read Monday.

A House committee which heard his local option proposal is expected to give it a favorable report, although the resolution faces hard sledding later.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

* 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

Jefferson's Manual, which is integral to the Rules of the House of Representatives, states that impeachment is set in motion by charges made on the floor, charges preferred by a memorial, a member's resolution referred to a committee, a message from the president, charges transmitted from the legislature of a state or territory or from a grand jury, or from facts developed and reported by an investigating committee of the House.

The full House of Representatives never voted on the resolution and the documents were turned over to the House.

When Cannon finally ruled the resolution out of order at noon on March 19, Norris appealed the resolution to the full House, which voted to overrule Cannon, and then to adopt the Norris resolution.

According to Edmond Ludlow, " The Wallingford House party, as if infatuated by a superior power to procure their own destruction, continued obstinately to oppose the Parliament, and fixed in their resolution to call another ( that is a reformed Parliament more agreeable to their interests ).

On December 15, 2009, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, " honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure.

In December 2009, the US House of Representatives voted 409 – 0 to pass a resolution honoring the album as a national treasure.

* 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George H. W. Bush in 1991.

Following the Alvensleben Convention of 1863, the House of Deputies passed a resolution declaring that it could no longer come to terms with Bismarck ; in response, the King dissolved the Diet, accusing it of trying to obtain unconstitutional control over the ministry.

" The House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution criticizing the citing of foreign law and " reaffirming American independence.

On March 12, 2009, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution ( HRES 224 ), recognizing March 14, 2009, as National Pi Day.

A copy of the resolution – and notice of the increase on Form 123 – must reach Companies House within 15 days of being passed.

Four years earlier, Georgia Rep. Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U. S. House of Representatives " the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U. S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie ' The Day After ' aired to the Soviet public.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

In particular, Reed sought to circumscribe the ability of the minority party to block business by way of its members refusing to answer a quorum call — which, under the rules, prevented a member from being counted as present even if they were physically in the chamber — thus forcing the House to suspend business.

Although Franz Joseph ceded no territory to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Austrian defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, the Peace of Prague ( 23 August 1866 ) settled the German question in favor of Prussia, which prevented the unification of Germany under the House of Habsburg ( Großdeutsche Lösung ).

In 1878, the act initially prevented President Rutherford B. Hayes, as part of his effort at civil service reform, from removing Chester A. Arthur and Alonzo B. Cornell from their political patronage jobs at the New York Customs House.

* The royal flag with the lesser national coat of arms is hoisted at the Royal Palace, if by reason of illness, foreign travel or for any other cause, the King is unavoidably prevented from performing his duties ; a member of the Royal House under the valid order of succession who is not prevented there from, assumes and performs the duties of the Head of State in the capacity of Regent ad interim.

He suggests that some action of Barbie's prevented the Cuckoo from leaving the Land on her own and that these events may have had some connection to the events of The Doll's House.

In November 1960 Viscount Stansgate died and Benn automatically became a peer and was thus prevented from sitting in the House of Commons.

However, there is some chance that the poor condition of the State House bell tower prevented the bell from ringing.

His religious and political views — he opposed the Act of Settlement of 1701 which secured the accession to the British throne for the House of Hanover — prevented him from receiving his degree from Balliol College, Oxford, or from pursuing any form of public career.

Green bans helped to protect historic 18th century buildings in The Rocks from being demolished to make way for office towers, and prevented the Royal Botanic Gardens from being turned into a car park for the Sydney Opera House.

This new policy effectively limited the size of franchisees and prevented larger franchises from challenging Burger King Corporation as Chart House had.

None of this prevented Lord Halifax being considered for the premiership in 1940, possibly with a special act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons ; in 1963 Lords Home and Hailsham were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting them to disclaim their peerages.

On 19 December, the House of Commons passed the Self-denying Ordinance, which prevented members of the Houses of Lords and Commons from holding any military office.

Shortly after his inauguration, Barack Obama transferred his Obama For America organization to the DNC, along with its 13 million person email list, as restrictions prevented him from taking it with him to the White House.

Lack of interest or funds prevented participation by all, but 21 states funded houses, which bore their names: for example, Pennsylvania House, Virginia House, New Hampshire House, etc.

According to a false legend, Muhlenberg as House Speaker prevented German from becoming an official language of the United States.

Pride prevented 231 known supporters of the treaty from entering the House and imprisoned 45 of them.

After Laud's execution, Prynne was charged by the House of Commons ( 4 March 1645 ) to produce an account of the trial ; other controversies prevented him from finishing the book.

Democrats, led by Charles Crisp ( who succeeded Reed as Speaker in the next two Congresses ), then declared that the absence of a quorum ( 179 Representatives ) prevented the House from making decisions.

One deviation from the previous setup was the introduction of the mid-term election ; however, the dynamics of the House of Representatives resumed its pre-1972 state, with the party of the president controlling the chamber, although political pluralism ensued that prevented the restoration of the old Nacionalista-Liberal two-party system.

In 1809 he proposed and carried without opposition in the House of Commons thirty-eight resolutions on financial questions, and only his loyalty to Sidmouth prevented him from joining the cabinet of Spencer Perceval as Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1809.

Chaudhry's strained relationship with Prime Minister Qarase has prevented the Labour Party from being represented in the Cabinet, despite the constitutional stipulation that any political party with more than eight seats in the House of Representatives is entitled to proportionate representation in the Cabinet.