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... Peers and Members of the House of Commons . Attendance on the service of Parliament . Office of Speaker in both Houses . Principal Officers . Journals . Admission of Strangers . Prorogation " 180 CHAPTER VIII . Motions and Questions ...
... Peers and Members of the House of Commons . Attendance on the service of Parliament . Office of Speaker in both Houses . Principal Officers . Journals . Admission of Strangers . Prorogation " 180 CHAPTER VIII . Motions and Questions ...
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... peers . were not admitted , as a class , to seats in the British Parlia- 13 Selden's Works , 713-743 . Peers , 6. 14.30 , 31. 36. 70 , 71 . Middle Ages , 261 . West , Inquiry into the Manner of creating Rep . Dign . of Peerage , 97 ...
... peers . were not admitted , as a class , to seats in the British Parlia- 13 Selden's Works , 713-743 . Peers , 6. 14.30 , 31. 36. 70 , 71 . Middle Ages , 261 . West , Inquiry into the Manner of creating Rep . Dign . of Peerage , 97 ...
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... peers of Scotland enjoy all the privileges of Parliament , including the right of sitting upon the trials of peers ; and all peers of Scotland are peers of Great Britain , and have rank and precedency immediately after the peers of the ...
... peers of Scotland enjoy all the privileges of Parliament , including the right of sitting upon the trials of peers ; and all peers of Scotland are peers of Great Britain , and have rank and precedency immediately after the peers of the ...
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... peers elect twenty - eight representatives for life from the peerage of Ireland . By that Act , the power of the Queen to add to the number of Irish peers is subject to limitation . She may make promotions in the peerage at all times ...
... peers elect twenty - eight representatives for life from the peerage of Ireland . By that Act , the power of the Queen to add to the number of Irish peers is subject to limitation . She may make promotions in the peerage at all times ...
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... peers of Scotland are required to be of full age.1 The titles of all temporal peers are now hereditary . Life Life peerages . peerages were formerly not unknown in our constitution ; 2 and in 1856 Her Majesty , having been advised to ...
... peers of Scotland are required to be of full age.1 The titles of all temporal peers are now hereditary . Life Life peerages . peerages were formerly not unknown in our constitution ; 2 and in 1856 Her Majesty , having been advised to ...
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Page 560 - Resolved, that it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any lord of parliament or other peer or prelate...
Page 5 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 737 - AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!
Page 739 - ... of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrifice of the mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 507 - That all Aids and Supplies, and Aids to his Majesty in Parliament, are the sole Gift of the Commons: And all Bills for the Granting of any such Aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons: And that it is the undoubted and sole Right of the Commons, to direct, limit and appoint, in such Bills, the ends, Purposes, Considerations, Conditions, Limitations, and Qualifications of such Grants; which ought not to be changed, or altered by the House of Lords.7 The British, in establishing colonial legislatures,...
Page 113 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 548 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue), issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 3 - That the kings or queens of this realm, with and by the authority of parliament, are not able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the crown, and the descent, limitation, inheritance, and government thereof.
Page 738 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 3 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?