Two days after Bloody Sunday, the Westminster Parliament adopted a resolution for a tribunal into the events of the day, resulting in Prime Minister Edward Heath commissioning the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery to undertake it.

The vast majority of laws are now subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, which works on the principle that consent from both the Council and Parliament are required before a law may be adopted.

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.

After the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I, the republic's existence was initially declared by " An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth " adopted by the Rump Parliament, on 19 May 1649.

In Parliament, the bill was adopted with the support of the Social Democrats, the Agrarian League, and some rightist activists and other non-socialists eager for Finnish sovereignty.

Svinhufvud's Senate proposed Finland's declaration of independence, which the Parliament adopted on 6 December 1917.

In late 2007 the European Parliament and Council adopted a legislative report to tighten gun control laws and establish an extensive firearms database.

A Reformed confession of faith rejecting papal jurisdiction was adopted by Parliament in 1560, while the young Mary, Queen of Scots, was still in France.

On 25 September 1991 the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted by the Macedonian Parliament making the Republic of Macedonia an independent country-although in Macedonia independence day is still celebrated as the day of the referendum 8 September.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

In August 1560 the Scottish Parliament adopted the Protestant Confession of Faith as the creed of the Scottish Kingdom.

It was established as one of the Transitional Federal Institutions ( TFIs ) of government as defined in the Transitional Federal Charter ( TFC ) adopted in November 2004 by the Transitional Federal Parliament ( TFP ).

It was established as one of the Transitional Federal Institutions ( TFIs ) of government as defined in the Transitional Federal Charter ( TFC ) adopted in November 2004 by the Transitional Federal Parliament ( TFP ).

In 1978, a new Constitution was adopted, which provided for an executive President, and the legislature was renamed Parliament.

* The Parliament of New Zealand adopted the Statute of Westminster by passing its Statute of Westminster Adoption Act of 1947 in November 1947, well-after the end of WW II.

This regulation was adopted by the European Parliament on June 19, 2007.

On July 8 the Congress adopted a petition to the king in the hopes that he would intervene in Parliament on behalf of the colonies.

In 2005, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Holocaust which included the persecution of homosexuals.

During the ensuing years, Parliament adopted several more minor reforms.

However, no proposal was successful until 1867, when Parliament adopted the Second Reform Act.

In 1931, Parliament adopted an Act to amend the Armistice Day Act, providing that the day should be observed on November 11 and that the day should be known as " Remembrance Day ".

When James VI inherited the English throne in 1603, the system was adopted by the Parliament of England.

In 1686, the Parliament of Sweden adopted the Book of Concord, although only certain parts, labelled Confessio fidei, were considered binding, and the other texts merely explanatory.

Nevertheless, Ourense ( in Galician ) is the official name adopted by Parliament in Spain, according to Law 2 / 1998.

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.

Nevertheless, Parliament was closed once again by military force until such time that the army and leaders of Parliament could effect a 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 ).

* January 27 – WWII: A peace resolution introduced in the Parliament of South Africa is defeated 81 – 59.

* January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament, to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck.

In 2005, the European Parliament marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp with a minute's silence and the passage of a resolution which included the following text:

He insisted that having done nothing, in relation to the matter in question, otherwise than by the authority of the Long Parliament, he was not justly accountable to this or any other inferior Court ; which being a point of law, he desired to have council assigned upon that head ; but the Court over-ruled ; and by interrupting him frequently, and not permitting him to go on in this defense, they clearly manifested a resolution of gratifying the resentments of the Court upon any terms.

The assembled Parliament unanimously enacted a resolution, the so-called Elverumsfullmakten ( Elverum Authorization ), granting the Cabinet full powers to protect the country until such time as the Storting could meet again.

By the resolution of the Scottish Parliament at Haddington, Mary Stewart was sent to France in August 1548 to be raised with her husband-to-be, the dauphin, son of Henry II of France.

The European Parliament threatened to pass a resolution against the Treaty ; although it has no formal power of veto, the Italian Parliament threatened that it would not ratify without the European Parliament's support.

Parliament passed a resolution in 1428 forbidding dowager queens to remarry without the king's permission, so the marriage of Catherine and Owen Tudor may not have been legally valid.

If a resolution is approved it is sent on to the European Parliament, for the consideration of MEPs.

On 10 June 1806, Fox offered a resolution for total abolition to Parliament: " this House, conceiving the African slave trade to be contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy, will, with all practicable expedition, proceed to take effectual measures for abolishing the said trade ..." The House of Commons voted 114 to 15 in favour and the Lords approved the motion on 25 June.

assaulted the patriotism of the Whigs who sponsored the resolution and Parliament was dissolved.

Debate in the colonies over the Stamp Act had actually begun in the spring of 1764 when Parliament passed a resolution that contained the assertion, " That, towards further defraying the said Expences, it may be proper to charge certain Stamp Duties in the said Colonies and Plantations.

When Parliament met in December 1765, it rejected a resolution offered by Grenville, who remained in Parliament, that would have condemned colonial resistance to the enforcement of the Act.

Wilkes eventually succeeded in convincing Parliament to expunge the resolution barring him from sitting.

Like all statutory instruments, they may simply be required to be laid before both Houses of Parliament, or, they may be annulled in pursuance of a resolution of either the lower House ( House of Commons in the UK and Canada or House of Representatives in the other realms ), or the upper House ( House of Lords in the UK or Senate in other realms ) (' negative resolution procedure '), or require to be approved by a resolution of either House, or, exceptionally, both (' affirmative resolution procedure ').