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	Privy council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy.
		The Irish Privy Council was abolished in 1922, when Southern Ireland separated from the United Kingdom; it was succeeded by the Privy Council for Northern Ireland, which became dormant after the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972.
		The British Privy Council was formerly the court of final adjudication for Hong Kong and Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_Council (320 words)

	TWEEDDALE, JOHN HAY, 2D EARL AND 1ST MARQUESS OF. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the Restoration (1660), he was made a privy councilor for Scotland and advanced to president of the council in 1663.
		He was dismissed (1674) from office because he favored leniency toward the Covenanters, but he later served Charles II and James II as commissioner of the treasury and privy councilor.
		Supporting the accession (1688) of William III, he was again made privy councilor and a lord of the treasury (1689), high chancellor of Scotland (1692), and marquess (1694).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/tw/TweeddalJ.html (173 words)

	privy : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
		Privy councilor, a member of the privy council.
		Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys.
		Privy seal or Privy signet, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/privy (294 words)

	Privy Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Technically, the British cabinet is a committee of the Privy Council, hence the appointment of new cabinet ministers to the Council.
		However, the former is officially preferred by the Privy Council Office in London, while the latter is the spelling used in the Canadian Constitution Act 1867 in relation to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
		Sweden's Privy Council, in contrast, was abolished as part of the reorganisation of the structures of government in the 1974 Instrument of Government (i.e., constitution dealing with the structures of government).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/privy_council (1067 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - OPPENHEIMER, JOSEPH SÜSS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The general bitterness was intensified when the duke decreed (Jan. 13, 1737) that the export and import of tanned leather and of hides should be supervised—that a board of supervisors should impose certain duties and collect heavy fines in cases of violation of the law.
		Five days later the duke decreed that all salaries should be paid promptly and regularly by the chief pay-offices, which should always be furnished with the necessary sums by the privy councilor of finance (Oppenheimer), but that, in return, three kreutzer to the florin should be deducted from all salaries.
		But the duke declared, in a decree of Feb. 12, 1737, "that the Privy Councilor of Finance Oppenheimer was a faithful servant of his prince and of the state, and was intent in every way upon the welfare of both, for which he deserved the thanks of all.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=103&letter=O (1800 words)

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		For instance, all Privy Councilors serve on the General Executive Committee of the Ananda Mahidol Foundation, whose object is to award scholarships for higher education.
		Certain members of the Privy Council are commanded to assist His Majesty in overseeing the development and progress of the numerous Royally initiated projects, mainly in the field of agriculture, irrigation and rural development.
		A Privy Councilor shall not be a Member of the Parliament, Election Commissioner, Ombudsman, member of the National Human Rights Commission, judge of the Constitutional Court, judge of the Administrative Court, member of the National Counter Corruption Commission, or member of the State Audit Council.
	www.thaisnews.com /thaimain/en/monarchy/privy.html (467 words)

	Privy - Definition of Privy by Webster Dictionary
		Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
		Myself am one made privy to the plot.
		the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/privy (248 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - AHITHOPHEL. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A native of Giloh in the highlands of Judah, and privy councilor to David.
		His advice to pursue the fleeing king in hot haste was wise from a military point of view, but was not accepted by Absalom; and the preference then shown to Hushai's counter-recommendation of delay offended him so sorely that he withdrew to his native city, Giloh, where he hanged himself.
		The Talmud speaks of this councilor of David as "a man, like Balaam, whose great wisdom was not received in humility as a gift from heaven, and so became a stumbling-block to him" (Num.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=993&letter=A (910 words)

	Privy Council of Sweden
		The Privy Council, or Riksrådet, was the principal government institution of Sweden from 1319 to 1974.
		The Privy Council now had 16 members, was lead by the king, where each councilor had one vote, except for the king who had two.
		The Privy Council was revived, now with nine members where the leading members were the Prime Minister of State and the Prime Minister of Justice.
	www.ukpedia.com /p/privy-council-of-sweden.html (635 words)

	Privy Council of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The translation of Senate and Senator to Council and Councillor is often seen, but is none the less wrong.
		"Privy Council", as found here, is an absolute aberration.
		The word "råd" in Swedish has a dual meaning, both the advisor and the advice given, but "council" is a different thing altogether from Senate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_Council_of_Sweden (1124 words)

	privy
		[1913 Webster] {Privy chamber}, a private apartment in a royal residence.
		Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen.
		[Eng.] {Privy verdict}, a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused.
	privy.lomus.net /privy.php?ref=privy (296 words)

	Privy Council - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Norway's Privy Council still functions as part of the constitutional structures of the kingdom.
		Sweden's Privy Council, in contrast, was abolished as part of the reorganisation of the structures of government in the 1974 Instrument of Government (i.e., constitution dealing with the structures of government.) Ireland's Privy Council ceased to exist when the Irish Free State came into existence in 1922.
		The Privy Council of Northern Ireland, which succeeded it, went into abeyance upon the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the imposition of direct rule.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Privy_Councilor (624 words)

	Guild of St. George - Overview of the Elizabethan Legal System
		The first major judicial system I will deal with are the so-called "Councilor Courts." The Councilor Courts derive their authority from the fact they are the sovereign's council.
		The judges are the Privy Councilors, the Attorney Generals for the Ancient Courts and one or two others.Their remit is very limited in that they can only deal with breaches of the sovereign's peace, i.e., riot.
		The chief judge during the early part of the reign is Dr. Thomas Wilson, Doctor at Law, also a Privy Councilor.
	guildofstgeorge.com /courts.htm (1054 words)

	Fred Mitchell Congratulates Prime Minister Christie on being named to the Privy Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Upon elevation to the Privy Council, the member for Farm Road is entitled, as we have heard to use for life the honorific Rt.
		The Privy council membership of which the Prime Minister is now a part, is not of course the same Privy Council that is the final Court of Appeal for The Bahamas.
		The privy Council was at point in British history the actual working group that made he decisions with the Monarch that governed the country.
	www.bahamasuncensored.com /privycncl.html (1118 words)

	Privy
		persuade them not to desert the gods of their country and their children and wives: upon which it is said that one of them pointed to his privy member and said that wherever this was, there would they have both children and wives.
		When these came to Ethiopia they gave themselves over to the king of the Ethiopians; and he rewarded them as follows:--there were certain of the Ethiopians who had come to be at variance with him; and he bade them drive these out and dwell in their land.
		Suppose that her privy purse were so large that she could afford to employ a hundred thousand pounds in this beneficent manner; would an Act of Parliament be necessary to enable her to do so?
	www.cooldictionary.com /?word=Privy (414 words)

	Privy Council of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King XII of Sweden">Charles XII had issued a new working order for the Privy Council Chancellery in 1713 to enable him to conduct government from the field.
		This provided opportunity for Riksdag of the Estates to influence the Constitutions of 1719 and 1721, that gave Sweden half a century of parliamentary government.
		After a moment's reflection he asked what sort of indicated the approximate length and thickness of a medium-sized supplying, freshly covered with white paper.
	www.termsdefined.net /pr/privy-council-of-sweden.html (845 words)

	Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz biography
		It was to him, likewise, that Peter the Great owed the plan of the since celebrated Academy of St. Petersburg.
		In the same year he was appointed Privy Councilor and Baron of the Empire.
		Towards the close of his life Leibnitz spent some time in further work on the annals of the house of Brunswick, and was drawn into a philosophical controversy with Samuel Clarke (q.v.).
	www.dromo.info /leibnitzbio.htm (1895 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- New Deal Cancelled -- Feb. 08, 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
		The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor).
		Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,883574,00.html (158 words)

	CIAJFK.com
		Knighted in 1617, and a member of Parliament for Yorkshire in 1621, Calvert served as one of James I's two secretaries of state and a Privy Councilor from 1619 to 1625.
		The king retained him in his Privy Council and in 1625, elevated him to the Irish Peerage as Baron Baltimore of Baltimore in County Longford.
		Stourton, went back to England and complained to the Privy Council that his patron was having Mass said in the province, and that he favored the Catholics.
	www.ciajfk.com /calvert.html (1384 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thereafter its formal role was confined to the assent or veto of those Bills which had passed the two houses (though, as we shall see, in practice the Crown continuously used privy councilors to supervise the progress of Bills and it frequently intervened to check or smooth their passage).
		The privy councillors sat around the speaker’s chair, where they could whisper instructions on the ordering of business.
		In 1581 a privy councilor, Sir Walter Mildmay, an Burghley’s client, Thomas Norton, dominated the Commons’ subsidy committee.
	filebox.vt.edu:8080 /c/cdearfie/james/tudorparliamentsGrave.doc (2014 words)

	AllRefer.com - Russell (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was lord high steward and lord keeper of the privy seal under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was created 1st earl of Bedford in 1550, and had a part in arranging the marriage of Mary I to Philip II of Spain.
		His son, Francis Russell, 2d earl of Bedford, 1527?–1585, was an influential privy councilor under Elizabeth I and president of the council of Wales.
		Francis Russell, 4th earl of Bedford, 1593–1641, was the most important opponent of Charles I in the House of Lords and was the brightest hope for reconciliation between king and Parliament when he suddenly died in 1641.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Russl.html (521 words)

	privy
		Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the
		Privy seal or Privy signet, the seal which the king uses
		Privy verdict, a verdict given privily to the judge out of
	dictionary-x.com /privy.html (385 words)

	Celtic Studio-Clan Stuart
		His grandson, Sir James Stuart of Bute, was appointed to manage the estates and to be colonel of the local militia on the forfeiture of the Earl of Argyll in 1681.
		He supported the accession of Queen Mary and William of Orange, and later, in the reign of Queen Anne, he was made a Privy Councilor.
		He became a Member of Parliament and later envoy to Sardinia, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Privy Councilor.
	www.celticstudio.com /CelticStudio/database/clans/137.htm (572 words)

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		Strong's Privy Council has used "off-book" partnersandMac226; to provide almost $10 billion in loans to Nortel and Bombardier while his blind trust, in control of Lansdowne Technologies, manipulated shares in both companies through "pump-and-dump" operations that netted billions for the lenders.
		A Canadian privy councilor who believes he has a duty to destroy the "rich industrialized countries", Mr.
		The Trudeau Foundation appears to be just one of many such foundations set up by Canadian privy councilors to hide the proceeds of crime, bypass Parliamentary scrutiny and realize the delusional, de-populationist dreams of Maurice Strong and the cult members of the "Earth Charter" movement located at Strong's University of Peace in Costa Rica.
	www.nwowatcher.com /smf/index.php?topic=3316.0 (904 words)

	The Inscription of Ptahshepses
		in the time of Menkaure; whom he educated among the king's children, in the palace of the king, in the privy chamber, in the royal harem; who was more honored before the king than any child; Ptahshepses.
		in the time of Shepseskaf; whom he educated among the king's children, in the palace of the king, in the privy chamber, in the royal harem; who was more honored before the king than any youth; Ptahshepses......
		His majesty gave to him the king's eldest daughter, Matkha as his wife, for his majesty desired that she should be with him more than with anyone; Ptahshepses.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/texts/ptahshepses.htm (401 words)

	Preamble
		Before taking office, a Privy Councilor shall make a solemn declaration before the King in the following words:” I, (name of the declarer), do solemnly declare that I will be loyal to His Majesty the King and will faithfully perform my duties in the interests of the country and of the people.
		In the case where the Regent appointed under section 18 or section 19 is unable to perform his or her duties, the President of the Privy Council shall act as Regent pro tempore.
		In the case where the President of the Privy Council is the Regent under paragraph one or acts as Regent pro tempore under paragraph two, the provisions of section 20 paragraph three shall apply.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/thailand.html (14239 words)

	AllRefer.com - York, Edward, duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was appointed (1403) lieutenant of South Wales, but discontent over lack of funds led him to join in an unsuccessful plot to kidnap and make king the captive Edmund de Mortimer, 5th earl of March.
		York was imprisoned (1405) but was later released and made a privy councilor.
		Subsequently he served Henry IV in Wales and France and was killed while fighting for Henry V at Agincourt.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/York-Edw.html (361 words)

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