Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.

* no standing army may be maintained during a time of peace without the consent of parliament.

However, two factors maintained significant power for the crown: the Greek party structure was weak and client-based and the monarch was free to select any member of parliament to form a government.

Singapore exemplifies a case of a numerically weak opposition ; South Africa under the apartheid regime maintained a long-term imbalance in the parliament.

Although he regularly attended the meetings of parliament he continued with his episcopal duties, and maintained the fabric of the cathedral.

As expected, the Barisan Nasional coalition maintained its majority in parliament, and thus, its grip on the post of Prime Minister.

Unlike continental Europe, the parliament of the rich maintained its rights and privileges.

On 15 Feb. 1813 he strongly protested against the bill for the creation of a vice-chancellor, the effect of which he maintained would be to make the lord chancellor a political rather than a judicial character ; and on 31 May 1815 he strenuously opposed Lord Althorp's motion for an inquiry into the expenditure of £ 100, 000 granted by parliament for the outfit of the Prince Regent.

Institutions of separate Croatian statehood were maintained with the Sabor ( parliament ) and the ban ( viceroy ) in the name of the king.

War he fought on the side of the parliament, and was in command of a ship in the squadron maintained against the king in the Irish seas.

The previous entry here maintained that the Lords found that " parliament had limited these natural rights in order to strike a more appropriate balance between the interests of the author and the wider social good ," quoting Ronan.

Throughout negotiations with the Indonesians, the Netherlands maintained it could give up sovereignty over Dutch New Guinea, because the conservative parties in the Dutch parliament, deeply humiliated by Indonesian independence and wanting to maintain a colonial stronghold in the area, would not vote to ratify any such agreement.

La Chalotais maintained that the trial was illegal ; being procureur general he claimed the right to be judged by the parliament of Rennes, or failing this by the parliament of Bordeaux, according to the custom of the province.

The political position of Prime Minister is maintained as being the leader of the party having majority seats in the National Assembly ( the only elected house of parliament of Mauritius ).

Discovering that the monarch maintained a will to collaborate with the Austrian Empire, he resigned office in April 1849, and returned to Naples to take his seat in parliament, where he led the constitutional opposition.

The unicameral parliament would be permitted to debate only those measures that had previously been approved by the Lords Proprietors, thus ensuring that the proprietors maintained control over colonial affairs.

Institutions of separate Croatian statehood were maintained with the Sabor ( parliament ) and the ban ( viceroy ) in the name of the king.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

To formalise its government's consent to the abdication, the Canadian parliament passed, the following year, the Succession to the Throne Act ( 1 Geo.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.

Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.

But whatever were the reasons behind the votes of the majority, the rejection of the Measures made it plain that the Church does not possess full spiritual freedom to determine its worship ..." Stephen Neill points out that the Roman Catholic members of parliament abstained from voting.

From the 12th century it remained a distinct state with its ruler ( ban ) and parliament, but it obeyed the kings and emperors of various neighboring powers, primarily Hungary and Austria.

Later in the same century, Croatia was so weak that its parliament authorized Ferdinand Habsburg to carve out large areas of Croatia and Slavonia adjacent to the Ottoman Empire for the creation of the Military Frontier ( Vojna Krajina, German Militaergrenze ) which would be ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters.

In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

The Empire tried to soften the problems with laws that would restrict slavery, but Brazil would inevitably recognize its end on May 13, 1888, with a law called Lei Áurea, sanctioned by imperial parliament and signed by princess Isabel.

The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.

" The commonwealth introduced a doctrine of religious tolerance called Warsaw Confederation, had its own parliament Sejm ( although elections were restricted to the nobility and elected kings, who were bound to certain contracts Pacta conventa from the beginning of the reign.

Paraguay was losing its natural semi humid forests in the country ’ s western regions at a rate of 15. 000 hectares at a randomly studied 2 month period in 2010, Paraguay ’ s parliament refused in 2009 to pass a law that would have stopped cutting of natural forests altogether.

It was refounded in 1994 by the Thuringian state parliament and has regained its status as a leading German academic and research institution.

It is the only political group in the European parliament to fully represent its corresponding European political party, i. e. the EPP.

As a result, the parliament of 1559 started to legislate for a church based on the Protestant settlement of Edward VI, with the monarch as its head, but with many Catholic elements, such as priestly vestments.

Responsibility for forming the cabinet out of several political parties and negotiating its platform is granted to the leader of the party gaining largest support in the elections for the parliament.

In the January 25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament to Hamas, and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the role as the main opposition party.

The debate which has been monitored by the Irish Times in its Renewing the Republic opinion pieces, has largely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament.

Accordingly, at the time of the Glorious Revolution, the English Parliament acted of its own authority to name a new king and queen ( joint monarchs Mary II and William III ); likewise, Edward VIII's abdication required the approval of the parliament in each of Edward's six independent realms.

Scotland regained its parliament, but the English Navigation Acts prevented the Scots engaging in what would have been lucrative trading with England's growing colonies.

Whitlam proved a far more effective opponent, both in the media and in parliament, and Labor soon began to recover from its losses and gain ground, with Whitlam repeatedly besting Holt in Parliament.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.