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Topic: Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency)

	Old Sarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodcut of Old Sarum as it was during its height
		Old Sarum was initially a hill fort strategically situated on the conjunction of two trade routes and the River Avon, Hampshire.
		Among the earliest records, Old Sarum is described as a city of the Belgae, and its historical details have proved a boon for the researches of topographical illustrators.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Sarum (914 words)

	Articles - British Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Scottish Parliament was established as the national unicameral legislature of Scotland by the Scotland Act 1998, and held its first meeting as a devolved legislature on 12 May 1999.
		Under the Parliament Act, if the House of Commons pass a public bill in two successive sessions, and the House of Lords rejects them both times, then the Commons may direct that the bill be presented to the Sovereign for his or her Assent, disregarding the rejection of the Bill in the House of Lords.
		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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	United Kingdom Parliament Encyclopedia Articles @ VeryGoodCredit.com (Very Good Credit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		At its head is the Sovereign; it is bicameral, with an upper house, the House of Lords, and a lower house, the House of Commons.
		The franchise in parliamentary elections for county constituencies was uniform throughout the country, extending to all those who owned the freehold of land to an annual rent of 40 shillings (Forty-shilling Freeholders).
		The Parliament Act 1911, as it became, allowed the Lords to delay a bill for a maximum of three sessions (reduced to two sessions in 1949), after which it could become law over their objections.
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	Old Sarum: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Old Sarum was initially a hill fort The term hill fort is commonly used by archeologists to describe fortified enclosures located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage....
		Among the earliest antiquarian records, Old Sarum is described as a city of the Belgae; and its historical details have proved an exhaustless mine for the researches of topographical illustrators.
		During the reign of Henry I. the bishop of Old Sarum, who rose to that dignity, from being a parish priest at Caen, was entrusted with the keys of the fortress.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /o/old_sarum (1739 words)

	Rotten borough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For many years, constituencies did not change to reflect population shifts, and in some places the number of electors became so few that they could be bribed.
		Examples include: Old Sarum in Wiltshire had eleven voters, Dunwich in Suffolk had 32 voters (the bulk of the settlements in the borough having fallen into the sea), Plympton Earle with 40 voters, and Newtown on the Isle of Wight with 23 voters (all figures for 1831).
		For example, Old Sarum was a flourishing town as long ago as in the twelfth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rotten_borough (1124 words)

	Old Saybrook, Connecticut - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Old Saybrook, Connecticut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		With interstate highway and rail connections, the town is a dormitory settlement with some manufacturing and a fishing industry.
		Old school holly wood (system of a down)
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	Parliament of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty).
		The British Parliament is often called the "Mother of Parliaments," as the legislative bodies of many nations—most notably, those of the members of the Commonwealth—are modeled on it.
		Thus, each Parliament is separately numbered, the present Parliament being the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom (that is to say, the fifty-third Parliament summoned since the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801).
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	The Parliament, Electorates, Local Government - Det Britiske Parlament, Valgkredse, Lokalstyre
		Montfort's Parliament was not new in idea, as the shires and towns had also earlier elected representatives to talk their cases at court, but it was the first time that these representatives met at the same time at the same place, thus being able to discuss as a group.
		This position as the foremost member of Parliament has since developed into a traditional position hold by a MP known for »high morality and integrety« and today it is seldom that the Speaker is dismissed.
		Constituencies were for many hundred years not equally distributed, nor were they representative of the number of voters which again were not corresponding with the total size of the population.
	www.jmarcussen.dk /historie/hart/parliament.html (5304 words)

	Old Salisbury: Later history \| British History Online
		In the earlier 17th century the power to secure the return of burgesses to Parliament seems to have depended upon securing the support of the freeholders who occupied the burgages of the old city.
		1761) was in a position to 'pawn' the constituency to the Treasury, who nominated the members in 1761, (fn.
		The castle complex received many visits from travellers, whose curiosity was perhaps aroused latterly as much by the constituency as by the antiquities.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=41780 (1336 words)

	Parliament and Parliamentary Representation
		Ireland had its own parliament until the 1801 Act of Union, after which it sent one hundred MPs to Westminster.
		Old Sarum, which belonged to the Pitt family, had seven voters.
		Old Sarum originally had been the site of Salisbury but the settlement had moved; there were few people left in Old Sarum but they still had two MPs.
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	Parliament of the United Kingdom Biography,info
		The British Parliament is often called the "Mother of Parliaments," as the legislative bodies of many nations, most notably those of the members of the Commonwealth; are modelled on it.
		Parliament is formally summoned 40 days in advance by the Sovereign, who is the source of parliamentary authority.
		Each Parliament that assembles following a general election is deemed to be distinct from the one which just concluded, and is separately numbered, the present Parliament being the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom since the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_British_Parliament (6788 words)

	Reform Act 1832 - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		However, the influence of the gentry was still strong in the Parliamentary composition and there was still great disparity between the population of constituencies.
		The remaining burghs combined in districts to elect 18 MPs, much as before; but now individual votes were added up among burghs across the constituency — in the past the MP had been elected at a meeting of representatives from each burgh.
		By 1708 the Parliament of England, representing both England and Wales, had been merged into the Parliament of Great Britain, representing England, Wales and Scotland.
	greatreformactof1832.quickseek.com (1558 words)

	House of Commons
		Whereas Parliament stipulated who should vote in county constituencies, each town was allowed to decide for itself how its MPs should be selected.
		The town of Old Sarum, which contains not three houses, sends two members; and the town of Manchester, which contains upwards of sixty thousand souls, is not admitted to send any.
		I left my constituency after my election with the feeling that I was nearly as important as people there believed me to be.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pcommons.htm (1794 words)

	Parliament of the United Kingdom - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The House of Commons, on the other hand, is a democratically elected chamber.
		The House of Lords and the House of Commons meet in separate chambers in the Palace of Westminster (commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament"), in the British capital, London (more precisely, in the borough—and city—known as the City of Westminster).
		Using the result as a mandate, the Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, introduced the Parliament law, which sought to restrict the powers of the House of Lords.
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	Ancestry.co.uk - Ancestry Daily News, 22 June 2004
		In the United Kingdom, universal suffrage is less than one hundred years old, and the secret ballot has not been around much longer (since 1872).
		In the election of 1831, the last before passage of the first reform bill in 1832, a limited and prosperous electorate returned 70% of the members of Parliament from the area south of that line.
		One tiny constituency, Old Sarum, had one voter; and Manchester, with a population over 160,000, was not yet recognized as a borough.
	www.ancestry.co.uk /learn/library/article.aspx?article=8706 (2085 words)

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