In 1967 the Parliaments released "( I Wanna ) Testify " on Revilot and finally achieved a hit single, with the song reaching # 3 R & B and # 20 Pop on the Billboard charts.

* Backtrack 6-Track 2407 006-various artists compilation featuring four singles by the Parliaments originally released on Revilot records, as well as one track by the Debonaires that was co-written and produced by George Clinton.

* The Parliaments-I Wanna Testify-Goldmine / Soul Supply GSCD 52-contains all of the Parliaments Revilot singles, as well as instrumental versions of " I'll Wait ", " Baby I Owe You Something Good ", and " All Your Goodies Are Gone ", as well as the Clinton-penned track " Let's Make It Last " recorded by The Fellows.

Articles of Union were approved by the commissioners on 22 July 1706, and ratified by the Scottish and English Parliaments on 16 January and 6 March 1707 respectively.

Eventually, in 1707, both Parliaments agreed on an Act of Union which united England and Scotland into a single political entity, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and established the rules of succession as laid down by the Act of Settlement 1701.

For more details on this phase of the collective's career, see also The Parliaments.

To capitalize on the single's success, Clinton put together a backing band for a tour, expanding the Parliaments to the five singers plus five backing musicians.

Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including " Testify ," " The Goose ," " All Your Goodies Are Gone ," " Fantasy Is Reality ," " Good Ole Music ," " I Can Feel The Ice Melting ," " What You Been Growing ," " I'll Wait ," and " That Was My Girl.

" In 1995, many of the original Parliaments tracks were reissued on the Goldmine / Soul label on the album Testifyin.

The group that would become Funkadelic was originally formed by George Clinton in 1964, as the unnamed musical backing for his doo wop group The Parliaments while on tour.

The band originally consisted of musicians Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, and Langston Booth plus the five members of the Parliaments on vocals.

In late 1967, The Parliaments went on tour with both Nelson and Hazel.

Hazel and bassist Billy Bass Nelson were on tour as musical support for the doo wop vocal group The Parliaments.

The Clerk of the Parliaments, standing on the Sovereign's left, responded by stating the appropriate Norman French formula.

Parliaments were held in the borough in 1272, 1296 and 1446, but the borough was not represented until 1608, when James I conferred on it the privilege of sending two members.

On 4 July a Nominated Assembly, nicknamed the " Assembly of Saints " or Barebone's Parliament ( named after one of its members ), took on the role of more traditional English Parliaments.

Black Rod is formally appointed by the Crown based on a recruitment search performed by the Clerk of the Parliaments, to whom he reports.

This motion, which was supported by the Duke of York and the Catholic peers, was defeated by a vote of 50-48, prompting Shaftesbury and 21 other peers to enter a protest on the grounds that " according to the ancient Lawes and Statutes of this Realm ... there should be frequent and new Parliaments " and that the House of Commons was being unnecessarily obstructionist.

Lying as it does on the main north-south route ( Ermine Street and the A1 ) from London, several Parliaments were held in Stamford in the Middle Ages.

Voters were required to rank in order of preference, on a ballot prepared by the Clerk of the Parliaments, as many candidates as there were places to be filled.

He was also very active in campus politics, serving with distinction in several Model Parliaments, and was campus prime minister in a grandiose Maritimes-wide Model Parliament in 1958.

The recording also included the rest of the Parliaments singers ( still uncredited due to contractual concerns ), several uncredited session musicians then employed by Motown, as well as Ray Monette ( of Rare Earth ) and future P-Funk mainstay Bernie Worrell.

He has authored several papers and lectures including: “ Re-tooling for New Challenges: Parliaments as Peace-builders ”, ( June 2005 ), “ Is There a Grand Strategy in Canadian Foreign Policy ” Ellis Lectures, University of Calgary, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, ( June 12 – 14, 2007 ) and “ Canadian Grand Strategy and Lessons Learned ” ( April 2008 ), Journal of Transatlantic Studies, United Kingdom ).

Parliaments are sold in several different varieties:

De la Mare served in several Parliaments during the 1380s.

He became Rear Admiral in 1810 with Commander in Chief for he West Indies from 1813 till peace in 1815 and held the command at Portsmouth from 1837-1839, he represented Queensburgh and Devises in several Parliaments, but passed his later years chiefly at Fordel.

By 1968, because of a dispute with Revilot, the record company that owned the name " The Parliaments ," the ensemble began playing under the name Funkadelic.

In 1967, The Parliaments, a Plainfield-based doo wop band headed by George Clinton, had a hit record with "( I Wanna ) Testify.

Lemieux presided over three successive Parliaments and was the longest serving Speaker until Lucien Lamoureux broke the record in 1974.

Remarkably Sercombe was an Opposition frontbencher in both the Victorian State and Federal Parliaments but did not become a Minister in either tier of Government.

Kings did not consider themselves, having once summoned an individual, bound to summon the same individual, much less his heirs, to future Parliaments.

Treaties are also put before the European Parliament and while its vote is not binding, it is important ; both the Belgian and Italian Parliaments said they would veto the Nice Treaty if the European Parliament did not approve it.

An example of this is the election of the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 shortly after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states ; those who voted received stamps in their passport for voting and those who did not vote did not receive stamps and were persecuted as an enemy of the people.

He was elected in 1853 to the 1st New Zealand Parliament, representing the City of Wellington electorate, but did not serve in any further Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He represented the Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, but did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He resigned on 26 May 1854, and did not serve in any further Parliaments.

He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Omata electorate 1853 – 1855, but did not serve in any further Parliaments.

He served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Suburbs of Auckland electorate from to 1855, when he retired, but did not serve in any further Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

He did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments.

However, it was not until a severe economic crisis, on account of harvest failure and the economic adventure in Panama where the Scots tried to establish a colony ( an attempt which failed utterly due to fever, hostile natives and lacking English co-operation ), that the Scottish Parliament did agree to a union of Parliaments.

Although later modified by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, at the time of the controversy in 2005, the British Westminster system did not run elections according to fixed schedules, whereas the People's Republic of China tends to have terms and elections according to fixed schedules, similar to the practice of the United States.

He himself did not run for the Exclusion Parliaments of 1679 – 1681, and in 1682 he incurred the severest displeasure of Charles II for presenting an address from the Duke of Monmouth.

There was also a radical working-class campaign which demanded manhood suffrage ( or even universal suffrage ), annual Parliaments and other radical changes but the other reform leaders did not support these demands.