If a Committee manages to adopt a joint text, it then has to be approved in a third reading by both the Council and Parliament or the proposal is abandoned.

The first ( 1642 – 46 ) and second ( 1648 – 49 ) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war ( 1649 – 51 ) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.

As of 2010, the ELDR is the third largest political party represented in European Union institutions, with 75 Members of the European Parliament and 8 members of the European Commission.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

One third of the judges are appointed by the President of the Italian Republic, one-third are elected by Parliament and one-third are elected by the ordinary and administrative supreme courts.

Finally Vane proceeded to Whitechurch in Hampshire and was elected a third time and was this time seated in Parliament.

He received 189 votes from the TFG Parliament, while the closest contender, erstwhile Somali ambassador to Washington Abdullahi Ahmed Addou, got 79 votes in the third round of voting.

In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.

* The third Tuesday in September: " Prinsjesdag " ( literally " Prince's Day ") is the Dutch State Opening of Parliament when the Queen reads the " speech from the throne " (" Troonrede ").

The Levellers ' largest petition, entitled " To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England ", was presented to Parliament on September 11, 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

No third parties won any seats in the Parliament in Malta's most recent 2009 election, for example.

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

A week later, the Parliament passed three acts in one day: the first abolished the jurisdiction of the Pope in Scotland, the second condemned all doctrine and practice contrary to the reformed faith, and the third forbade the celebration of Mass in Scotland.

This was the third of the British North America Acts to be enacted by the Parliament of Canada.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | The Lord Tweedsmuir gives the Speech from the throne | Throne Speech at the opening of the third session of the 18th Canadian Parliament | 18th Canadian parliament, 27 January 1938

The Commons passed resolutions ( 14 April ) that would form the basis for the Parliament Act: to remove the power of the Lords to veto money bills, to reduce their veto of other bills to a power to delay for up to two years ( the Bill would become law if passed a third time by the Commons ), and also to reduce the term of Parliament from seven years to five ( the King would have preferred four years ).

The third session of what is now known as the Reformation Parliament had been scheduled for October 1531, but was postponed until 15 January 1532 due to government indecision as to the best way to proceed.

Six of the bills that had been the subject of the double dissolution were introduced to the Parliament a third time and, as expected, were again rejected by the Senate.

In August 2005, Parliament voted to change the constitution to lift presidential term limits, allowing Museveni to run for a third term if he wishes to do so.

The Commons passed resolutions ( 14 April ) which would form the basis for the Parliament Act: to remove the power of the Lords to veto money bills, to reduce their veto of other bills to a power to delay for up to two years ( the Bill would become law if passed a third time by the Commons ), and also to reduce the term of Parliament from seven years to five ( the King would have preferred four years ).

The election resulted in a hung Parliament, with the Liberals in third place behind Labour.

Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic.

* Parliamentary republic — a republic, like India, Poland, with an elected head of state, but where the head of state and head of government are kept separate with the Head of government retaining most executive powers, or a head of state akin to a head of government, elected by a Parliament.

The Australian Republican Association ( ARA ) was founded in response, advocating the abolition of Governors, and their titles ; the revision of the penal code ; payment of members of Parliament ; nationalisation of land ; and an independent federal Australian republic outside of the Empire.

The first question asked whether Australia should become a republic with a President appointed by Parliament, a model that had previously been decided at a Constitutional Convention in February 1998.

* An Australian republic: The options: the report of the Republic Advisory Committee, Parliamentary paper / Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia ( 1993 )

But in 1649, the Rump Parliament, victorious in the English Civil War, executed Charles I, and made England a republic, or " Commonwealth ".

In December 1947 King Michael abdicated and left Romania at the request of the communist-dominated government, while Parliament proclaimed the country a republic.

As it became clear that Finland would be a republic, Stålberg also championed direct election of the President of Finland, but the Council of State chose the electoral college system, although the first President would be elected by Parliament.

On 1 June 1964, Kenyatta became President when he successfully had Parliament amend the Constitution to make Kenya a republic with his office becoming executive President: the head of State, head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

However, they are certain that the prohibition turned maypole dancing into a symbol of resistance to the Long Parliament and to the republic that followed it.

In 1919 the republic issued new designs ; a post horn, the coat of arms, a kneeling man representing the new republic, and the Parliament building, all done in a vaguely Art Nouveau style, and inscribed " DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH " (" ÖSTERREICH " appeared in 1922 ).

In Mauritius, the unicameral Parliament was known as the Legislative Assembly until 1992, when, following the establishment of a republic, it was renamed the National Assembly.

Though a republic since 1949, the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 that had established the Kingdom of Ireland was not finally repealed until 1962, along with many other obsolete Parliament of Ireland statutes.

The Agrarian League managed to maintain the republic voices in the Parliament until the fall of the German Empire, which ruined the dreams of the monarchists.

However, articles 18 and 45 of the Constitution provide, respectively, that any Member of Parliament may be elected head of state, and that any Samoan citizen may be elected to Parliament, and Samoa is now considered a parliamentary republic.

The countries that now make up the United Kingdom, together with the present Republic of Ireland, were briefly ruled as a republic in the 17th century, first under the Commonwealth consisting of the Rump Parliament and the Council of State, ( 1649 – 53 ) and then under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ).

In Southern Rhodesia, the unrecognised Parliament of Rhodesia purported to repeal the Citizenship of Southern Rhodesia and British Nationality Act 1963, under which Southern Rhodesian citizens were British subjects, and to enact the Citizenship of Rhodesia Act 1970, following the declaration of Rhodesia as a republic.

The Convention was divided into four philosophical groups: those wanting to retain Australia's existing constitutional monarchy, those wanting Australia to become a republic with a head of state chosen by the Parliament (" indirect electionists "), those wanting Australia to become a republic with a president elected by the people (" direct electionists "), and those having no fixed position or seeking a compromise between the other groups.

Parliament has the right to revise or amend the Constitution, except for the articles dealing with the " Form of the State " ( i. e. the establishment of the presidential, parliamentary republic ) and the articles safeguarding human rights and freedoms, which are unalterable.

Although opinion polls showed that many Australians favoured becoming a republic, divisions emerged in the Movement between those who favoured indirect election of the President by Parliament, and those who favoured direct election by the people.