In contrast with Westminster system cabinets, which generally need only be backed by a majority of legislators, ministerial positions in the Northern Ireland Executive are allocated to parties with significant representation in the Assembly.

Following the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, however, the empire was divided into autonomous kingdoms under one sovereign, thus returning the monarch to a position similar to that which existed pre-1707, where he or she was ministered by separate cabinets for each respective country.

In her opening remarks Mrs. Long also welcomed the Juniors and stated, `` There isn't any other show quite like Westminster.

Last year Susan also placed 3rd in the Finals at Westminster.

The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

By-elections were also held to the Westminster and Scottish Parliament constituency of Glasgow Anniesland.

For British Catholics its effects were disastrous both socially and politically: Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in the Westminster Parliament for over a century ; they were also denied commissions in the army, and the monarch was forbidden to be Catholic or to marry a Catholic, a prohibition still in force.

* 1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the " Houses of Parliament ".

The units that still survive are A Company 231 KRRC ( Paddington ) Rifles ACF, B Company 232 KRRC ( Westminster ) Rifles ACF, C Company 233 KRRC ( Camden ) Rifles ACF and up until recent years D Company 234 KRRC ( Putney ) RGJ ACF, which formed the London Oratory School RGJ ACF unit ( now CCF ) although they were rebadged as Irish Guards in 2010 ( making them the last remaining RGJ unit and also the first Irish Guards CCF unit ).

Parliament ordered the regiments of Col. Morley and Col. Moss to march to Westminster for their security, and sent for the rest of the troops that were about the London to draw down to them also with all speed.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

He also began teaching life drawing at Westminster School of Art where he met painter Maeve Gilmore, whom he married in 1937.

Her privy purse expenses for this period show that Hatfield House, the Palace of Beaulieu ( also called Newhall ), Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence, as well as Henry's palaces at Greenwich, Westminster and Hampton Court.

The existing 27-book canon of the New Testament was reconfirmed ( for Roman Catholicism ) in the 16th century with the Council of Trent ( also called the Tridentine Council ) of 1546, the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for Eastern Orthodoxy.

He also married the fourteen-year-old Elisabeth de St Michel, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, first in a religious ceremony, on 10 October 1655, and later in a civil ceremony, on 1 December 1655, at St Margaret's, Westminster.

William Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster ; his father ( also named William Jones ) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi.

The Statute of Westminster also states:

The text of the 1936 Act states that the Dominion of Canada consented to the Act applying in Canada under the Statute of Westminster, while Australia, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa also consented.

In Northern Ireland, the largest Pro-Belfast Agreement party, Sinn Féin, not only advocates Northern Ireland's unification with the Republic of Ireland, but also abstains from taking their elected seats in the Westminster government, as this would entail taking a pledge of allegiance to the British monarch.

He was also invited to succeed the venerable Thomas Cawton ( the younger ) as independent minister in Westminster.

This custom also occurs in other Westminster Systems in the world, in consequence from the influence of British colonial rule.

* 1265 – January 20 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the Houses of Parliament.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

Young Peter Wendell, a student at the Westminster school, has measles, and his sister, Mrs. Andrew Thomas, and her husband, who live in Missoula, Mont., have a new baby.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs: for example, Geoffrey of York, an illegitimate son of Henry and a prostitute named Ykenai, was acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.

According to the findings of the programme, no one within of the blast could have survived, and all of the stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey would have been shattered, as would all of the windows in the vicinity of the Palace.

The basic system is closely patterned on that of the Westminster System, although a number of significant modifications have been made.

The House of Commons, which did not have a chamber of its own, sometimes held its debates in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey.

Some of the splits have been due to doctrinal controversy, while some have been caused by disagreement concerning the degree to which those ordained to church office should be required to agree with the Westminster Confession of Faith, which historically serves as an important confessional document-second only to the Bible, yet directing particularities in the standardization and translation of the Bible-in Presbyterian churches.

The SNP parliamentarians ( Scottish, Westminster and European ) and councillors have representation on the NEC, as do the Trade Union Group, the youth wing and the student wing.

The Empress now began to take the necessary steps to have herself crowned queen in his place, which would require the agreement of the church and her coronation at Westminster.

The residual constitutional powers retained by the Westminster parliament have now largely been superseded by subsequent legislation.

Some of the Sinhalese community have been against the public display of support for the LTTE in the 2009 Tamil Diaspora protests in Westminster, London.

In the last few general elections, voter mandates for Westminster in the 40 % ranges have been swung into 60 % parliamentary majorities.

The college was the first in the University to have electric lighting installed, when Lord Kelvin provided it for the Hall and Combination Room to celebrate the College's six-hundredth anniversary in 1883-1884. It was the second building in the country to get electric lighting, after the Palace of Westminster.

Important features of the Westminster system include the following, although not all of the following aspects have been preserved in every Westminster-derived system:

Most of the procedures of the Westminster system have originated with the conventions, practices and precedents of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which are a part of what is known as the Constitution of the United Kingdom.

Unlike the uncodified British constitution, most countries that use the Westminster system have codified the system in a written constitution.

Although there have been many works since emphasising different aspects of the " Efficient ", no one has seriously questioned Bagehot's premise that the divide exists in the Westminster system.

Many political scientists have held that the Australian system of government was consciously devised as a blend or hybrid of the Westminster and the United States systems of government, especially since the Australian Senate is a powerful upper house like the U. S. Senate ; this notion is expressed in the nickname " the Washminster mutation ".

Westminster governments usually do not have a very strong tradition of separation of powers, in practice ( apart from the separation between the executive / legislature and the judiciary ).