The House of Lords has an absolute vote on any Bill to extend the life of Parliament.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

The differences between this court and the House of Lords are that in the House all of the peers are judges of both law and fact, whereas in the Court the Lord High Steward is the sole judge of fact and the peers decide the facts only ; and the bishops are not entitled to sit and vote in the Court.

Palmerston survived the vote in the Commons ; the Lords did not hear the case.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.

* 1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

An important vote: the House of Lords voting for the Parliament Act 1911.

The Prime Minister, the Chief Executive, sits as a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, either as a peer in the House of Lords or as an elected member of the House of Commons ( by convention, and as a result of the supremacy of the Lower House, the Prime Minister now sits in the House of Commons ) and can effectively be removed from office by a simple majority vote.

As no money bill had been rejected by Lords for over two hundred years, a furore arose over this vote.

After the election, the King suggested a compromise whereby only 50 peers from each side would be allowed to vote, which would also redress the large Unionist majority in the Lords, but Lord Crewe, Liberal leader in the Lords, advised that this would reduce the Lords ' independence as only peers who were loyal party supporters would be picked.

In modern practice, no new hereditary peerages are created ( except for members of the Royal Family ), but only life peerages which carry the personal right to sit and vote in the House of Lords.

Currently a few hereditary peers, who are elected to represent the others, also retain the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, only 90 members sitting by virtue of a hereditary peerage remain.

In the Holy Roman Empire, instead of an exclusive aristocratic assembly, the Imperial Diet was the highest organ, membership of which, expressed by the title Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was granted to all major princes, and various minor ones, princes of the church ( parallel to the Lords spiritual ) and in some cases restricted to a collective ' curiate ' vote in a ' bench ', such as the Grafenbank.

Contrary to British constitutional convention, the Conservatives used their large majority in the Lords to vote down the Budget.

Those Law Lords who first held the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom lost the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, despite retaining their life peerages, upon creation of the Supreme Court.

Shortly afterward, he had to spend most of it on saving Duke from being a zombified slave, but had enough left over to buy a British title ( His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham ), which caused him to be called to England as a tie-breaker for a vote in the House of Lords over one of Margaret Thatcher's tax bills.

Under the House of Lords Act 1999 the majority of hereditary peers lost the privilege of a seat and right to vote in the House of Lords.

The Duke recovered somewhat, but while his speech had become impaired his mind remained clear, recovering enough to ride out to watch the builders at work on Blenheim Palace and attend the Lords to vote for Oxford's impeachment.

After a memorable debate ( 17 June ), Palmerston's policy was condemned by a vote of the House of Lords.

The Conservatives replied that Palmerston had betrayed the Danes and a vote of censure in the House of Lords was carried by nine votes.

There is a constitutional convention that the House of Lords does not vote against delegated legislation.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

Despite the warning, there was a unanimous vote to enter a candidate, according to Republicans who attended.

Pelham said Sunday night there was research being done on whether the `` quickie '' vote on the increase can be repealed outright or whether notice would have to first be given that reconsideration of the action would be sought.

Only 11 senators were on the floor and there was no record vote.

The NLRB said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged.

The colony was administered from Brussels, with neither the Congolese nor the resident Belgians having any vote.

Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.

Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide, carrying all but three states, and receiving 78 percent of the Union soldiers ' vote.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

A vote was then taken, when Palladius and his associate Secundianus were deposed from the episcopal office.

This group was outcast by the unanimous vote of all the Khojas assembled in Bombay.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

The presidential election of 1824 is notable for being the only election since the passage of the Twelfth Amendment to have been decided by the House of Representatives in accordance with its provision to turn over the choice of the president to the House when no candidate secures a majority of the electoral vote.

Condit's most notable vote in his last months in office was the resolution to expel Congressman James Traficant after his conviction on corruption charges.

Louis Stanislas was the only notable to vote to increase the size of the Third Estate.

In one notable example, the former pastor of the East Waynesville Baptist Church in Waynesville, North Carolina " told the congregation that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry should either leave the church or repent ".

The most notable result came in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where Le Pen was elected to the local council with 11 % of the vote.

In one notable incident, Healey was reputed to have told the right-wing Manifesto Group they must vote for him as they had " nowhere else to go.

Cuse said the vote " reaffirms for me a feeling I've had – namely that the Nielsens aren't accurately reflecting people's interest in this show ," adding that, given Fox's then relatively small share of the market, it was notable that the show got more votes than any of the programs from NBC, CBS, and ABC.

The most notable legacy of his administration was the adoption of the Australian ballot, which allowed citizens to vote in comparative privacy.

Clough's first administration was notable for the ratification of significant amendments to the state constitution, including those establishing the Minnesota Board of Pardons, withdrawing the right of aliens to vote, and authorizing municipalities to frame " home rule " charters.

While it had been acceptable prior to the turn of the 20th century for Canadian governors general to involve themselves in political affairs, being, as they were, representatives of the King in his British Council, Byng's tenure as viceroy of Canada was notable in that he became the first to step directly into political matters since the country had gained a degree of autonomy from the United Kingdom following the First World War, denying, as he did, the recommendations of his prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, who sought to have parliament dissolved in order to avoid a vote of non-confidence in his government.

In 2010, Derbyshire County Council allowed its residents to vote via the internet on a shortlist of notable historical figures to be commemorated in a local blue plaque scheme.

Gruening ’ s most notable act as Senator was being, along with Wayne Morse of Oregon, one of only two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized an expansion of U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

While not attempting to dismantle the Jim Crow laws of his state, he was notable for easing the governmental indignities placed on African-Americans and allowed a considerable number to vote.

Lee is notable as the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

He is notable among Labour MPs in that he did not vote for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The new prime minister, Bob Hawke, had vowed to stop the dam from being constructed, and the anti-dam vote increased Hawke's majority-some federal Victorian seats were notable for having a strong interest in the issue.

This became notable several years later, when Jim DeShaies, a relief pitcher with a career clearly more marginal than Brooks ', openly ( and humorously ) campaigned for at least a single vote, claiming that he didn't want to " get Hubie'd.

" This election was notable for both the attacks of the Suffragette movement on Churchill, over his refusal to support legislation that would give women the vote, and Jewish hostility to Joynson-Hicks over his support for the controversial Aliens Act.

The BBC revival was notable for being the first TV show to decide its winner using the now-standard method of a telephone vote.

Its most notable candidate, Roger Ira Price, who ran for the United States Senate in 2006, received 1. 6 % of the vote.

Three players who had retired before 1924 ( none earlier than 1921 ) and were officially ineligible nevertheless received a single vote each ; this was a notable reduction from the previous year's total of 23 votes for such now-ineligible candidates.

One notable newsreel included Soviets arriving in California to vote for Sinclair.

The election was also notable in that Paul Lyon ( a. k. a. Ringo ), co-founder of the Chi Chi Party, received every vote for the Junior President post.

The Party was notable for allowing each MP a conscience vote on each piece of legislation before Parliament.

At the end of the show, the audience and a panel of judges — notable celebrities who may or may not have a connection to the music industry — vote to select the winning team.