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  United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom is the union of the Kingdom of England (which includes the principality of Wales) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland to form a single state.
Parliament is the national legislature of the United Kingdom.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
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 United Kingdom - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former British Empire) and NATO.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised by a government headed by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
Parliament is bicameral, composed of the 659-member elected House of Commons and the mainly appointed House of Lords.
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 Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1541 Henry VIII declared the Kingdom of Ireland and emabarked on the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland.
Thus, each Parliament is separately numbered, the present Parliament being the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom (that is to say, the fifty-fourth Parliament summoned since the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801).
Parliament controls the executive by passing or rejecting its Bills and by forcing Ministers of the Crown to answer for their actions, either at "Question Time" or during meetings of the parliamentary committees.
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 westminster parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of the Queen, an upper house of Parliament called the House of Lords and a lower house called the House of Commons and is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and its overseas territories.
For a list of MPs in the current Parliament, see: MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001, for a list of all the parliaments, see List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom.
That dominance continued in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (formed in 1801 when the crowns of Great Britain and Ireland were merged) and the modern United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (formed in December 1922 when twenty-six of Ireland's thirty-two counties left to form the Irish Free State.
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 List of Parliaments of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a listing of sessions of the Parliament of Great Britain, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons for each session, and the list of members of the House.
The sessions are numbered from the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
For later Westminster parliaments, see List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, and for earlier ones, see List of Parliaments of England.
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 Politics of the United Kingdom - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy.
Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Thus, the United Kingdom is said to have a unitary state with a devolved system of government.
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 Encyclopedia: List of British monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (The UK after the Irish Free State was formed and became a separate nation in the 1920s).
Kingdom of Great Britain The Union Flag (1606-1800) The Kingdom of Great Britain, also sometimes known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the 1707 Act of Union to create a single kingdom...
For clarity and because the United is far more strongly associated with the later name United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland produced in the Act of Union 1800, the 1707 Kingdom is generally referred to as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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 List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House.
The Parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
For previous Westminster parliaments, see List of Parliaments of Great Britain and List of Parliaments of England.
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 List of United Kingdom-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom.
List of television stations in the United Kingdom
List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
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 United Kingdom Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to United Kingdom or UK) is a country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe, and is surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
Each year, the monarch officially opens Parliament, and makes a speech announcing what the government plans to do during the next year, however that speech is usually written by the Prime Minister.
The main rivers and estuaries are the Thames, Severn and the Trent and Ouse feeding the Humber Estuary; major cities include London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester, and Newcastle upon Tyne.
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 Elections in the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The United Kingdom is a country in Western Europe and member of the European Union.
United Kingdom has a population of around 60 million on 241,590 km² (including Northern Ireland).
The United Kingdom is a member of the European Union.
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 Parliament Of The United Kingdom Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 United Kingdom
Lists the places in the civil registration districts in each county in England and Wales.
It is searchable by village name and generates lists of nearby villages and hamlets and a link to the exact location on a modern map or an old map.
The Country House Database lists country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to c1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them.
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 PRIME RECENT and PROPOSED ATTACKS on CIVIL RIGHTS in the UNITED KINGDOM, a list - magnacartaplus
It can also be added that most European countries do not use jury trials, and thus a long-standing safeguard in British justice will not apply (however, the current UK government is undermining jury trial).
For these orders to be imposed, Parliament must agree to the derogation from article 5 of the ECHR within 40 days of the parliamentary order that enables the derogation being tabled.
Protestors, or even a single protestor, must apply at least 24 hours in advance for a permit to protest within 1km of Parliament, though the Act also states that if it is "reasonably practical" the application must be made at least 6 days beforehand.
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 Parliament Home Page | Houses of Parliament
You can watch or listen to live coverage of all UK Parliament proceedings - including all Committees which are meeting in public.
The video and audio quality has been upgraded with the return of the two Houses this month.
This new video offers an introduction to the work of Select Committees, the cross-party bodies responsible for carrying out Parliament's key role - to hold the Government of the day to account.
www.parliament.uk   (290 words)

  
 Foreign Governments/Europe
List of government officials and maps of counties
Lists of cabinet members and government bodies with phone numbers
List of government agencies and political parties appears underCultural and Social Establishments
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 Ward and Westminister parliamentary constituency boundaries
North Lanarkshire Council's 70 wards are encompassed by 4 newly created parliamentary boundaries.
These parliamentary boundaries are different from those serving the Scottish parliament.
The map below shows ward and constituency boundaries, where they diverge and where (in the case of constituencies) they go outwith North Lanarkshire Council's boundaries.
www.northlan.gov.uk /your+council/parliaments/united+kingdom+parliament/ward+and+westminister+parliamentary+constituency+boundaries.html   (88 words)

  
 United Kingdom Women's Organisations
We are a womens charity in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom who offer advice, guidance and training to women in the area to give them the skills, confidence and motivation to enter into employment and/or further training.
Aims: work towards a minimum of 300 women members of parliaments; encourage women to seek and hold public office; encourage women to participate in the public decision-making processes at all levels.
AVIVA is an electronic magazine founded by an international group of feminists, available for free on Internet and updated every month.
www.distel.ca /womlist/countries/unitedkingdom.html   (1550 words)

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