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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The fourth was the recognition by the unelected <b>House</b> of Lords of its subordination in legislative matters to the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Disapproval would force the cabinet either to <b>resign</b> in favor of another group of parliamentarians, or to ask the king to dissolve Parliament in order that a general <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>election</a> could decide between the ministry and its critics. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This <b>House</b> is as old as the <b>Commons</b>, and the two have grown up side by side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House</b> resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole <b>House</b> on the report of the standing Committee of <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>Elections</a>, to whom was referred the Letter from the Executive of the State of Maryland, containing the <b>resignation</b> of </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Vacancies may happen from various causes--by <b>resignation</b>, by death, or by expulsion--the Executive of the State is the proper judge in the first case. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> originated with the Kings, who formed that body to control the Lords; and hence arose the prohibition against <b>resignations</b>, as they would weaken the body, and the expense of a new <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>election</a> would fall on the King.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Britain was described as relatively homogeneous in its socio-economic composition, while the <b>British</b> people were said to exhibit a considerable degree of consensus on political issues and show a large amount of deference to political leaders and to the political system as a whole. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Depending on the relative strengths of the parties in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>, the Opposition may seek to overthrow the Government by defeating it in a vote on a 'matter of confidence'. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It believes that by the strength of our <b>common</b> endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Archie Hamilton) announced to the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> that “All widows of service men killed in Northern Ireland before 31 March 1973 should now be in receipt of the new tax-free special payment of £40 per week in addition to their war widows' pension”. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In <b>British</b> civil-military relations, a civil Government which commands a large majority in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> is by-and-large answerable but not immediately swayable by either political or public opinion or armed forces desires in any issue other than that which endangers the populaces daily style of life. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Commons</b> Hansard (19 Jun 1990) <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> Hansard Debates for 19 Jun 1990 DEFENCE Column 783 The Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mr.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House</b> Majority Leader is second to the Speaker of the U.S. <b>House</b> of Representatives in the majority party hierarchy. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House</b> Minority Leader serves as the minority party’s counterpart to the Speaker of the U.S. <b>House</b> of Representatives. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The title was first used in the <b>British</b> <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> in the late 1700s to describe the officials responsible for gathering votes on a given issue.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>British</b> Parliament is divided into the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> and the <b>House</b> of Lords; though it is often assumed that an MP is a member of <b>Commons</b>, they can be a member of either <b>house</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> MPs in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> are elected and remain MPs until Parliament is dissolved (parliaments can last up to five years). </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The members of the <b>House</b> of Lords are officially appointed by the Monarch, but the selection is done by the <b>British</b> Prime Minister.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The addition of the motor, usually electric but may be pneumatic or hydraulic, reduces the work that the operator has to do, and sometimes makes it possible for the operator to do things that are difficult or impossible to do by hand. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Common</b> power tools include the drill, various types of saws, the router, the electric sander, and the lathe. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <a href="/topics/Member-of-Parliament" title="Member of Parliament" class=fl>Members of Parliament</a> of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> in the United Kingdom are technically forbidden to <b>resign</b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Former <b>British</b> <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> Leader Robin Cook discusses his <b>resignation</b> with CNN's Larry King. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> then passed a second measure calling for "all means necessary" to disarm Iraq. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Blair suffered early setbacks prior to Tuesday's session with the <b>resignation</b> Monday of senior Cabinet minister Robin Cook, from his post as leader of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> At the end of the Vietnam War, <b>British</b> post-colonial interests put it in the position both of seeking closer relations with the Suharto regime and of avoiding outright support for a denial of self-determination that might hold damaging implications for Britain with regards to the Falklands Islands and Belize, both still <b>British</b> colonies. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> By 2002, the <b>British</b> relatives had the support of 150 MPs in their campaign for the release of FCO policy papers on East Timor and on the Balibo case. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Inquest and <b>British</b> <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> information is at : <http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/230605/mps_demand_justice> Please note, however, that while Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office appeared to describe those deaths as "murder" in 2000 and 2003, the FCO asserted in June 2005 that it had not made any such assessment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was frequently the necessity for me as leader of the <b>House</b> to talk my way out of accusations that a statement had been preceded by a press interview. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Nothing could better demonstrate that they are wrong than for this <b>House</b> to stop the commitment of troops in a war that has neither international agreement nor domestic support. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is for that reason, and for that reason alone, and with a heavy heart, that I <b>resign</b> from the government.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> They began to be maintained as a separate series in 1847 when the original manuscripts of the <b>House</b> miscellaneous documents were first bound by the Government printing contractors and returned to the Clerk of the <b>House</b> after the printed edition was issued. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The committee, which quite literally consists of the entire membership of the <b>House</b>, stems from a practice of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>, when the Speaker of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> was regarded as an agent of the King. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>House's</b> response to abolitionist pressure was to pass a resolution on December 21, 1837, to table all memorials, petitions, and papers on slavery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Citation: '<b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> Journal Volume 4: 26 May 1645', Journal of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>: volume 4: 1644-1646 (1802), pp. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> That this <b>House</b> doth accept of the <b>Resignation</b> and Desire of Major Peter Burgoyne, to be discharged from the Government of Coventry. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Recorder reports, from the Committee, the Amendments and Alterations in the Ordinance for levying the Arrears due upon several Ordinances of Parliament in the City of London: Which Amendments were twice read; and assented unto: And then the whole Ordinance, upon the Question, passed; and ordered to be sent to the Lords for their Concurrence.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> Journal Volume 1: 20 February 1576 </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Citation: '<b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> Journal Volume 1: 20 February 1576', Journal of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>: volume 1: 1547-1629 (1802), p. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Upon the Question for the Question, and also upon the Division of this <b>House</b>, it is Ordered, That Edward Smalley Yeoman, Servant unto Arthure Hall Esquire, One of the Burgesses for Grantham, shall have Privilege; with the Yea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It has been a favorite theme of commentators that the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> has lost its central role in <b>British</b> politics. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Nothing could better demonstrate that they are wrong than for parliament to stop the commitment of <b>British</b> troops to a war that has neither international authority nor domestic support.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Editor's Note: This is the full text of former <b>British</b> Cabinet minister Robin Cook's <b>resignation</b> speech in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons;</b> it received an unprecedented standing ovation. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> None of those 20 years were more enjoyable or more rewarding than the past two, in which I have had the immense privilege of serving this <b>House</b> as Leader of the <b>House</b>, which were made all the more enjoyable, Mr Speaker, by the opportunity of working closely with you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Consequently, Early Day Motion 300 has been tabled in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>, which calls upon the <b>British</b> Government to formally report the US breach of the Geneva Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention to the Security Council of the United Nations. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As Sir Teddy Taylor stated to the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> one year ago: "It is abundantly clear that the US Department of Commerce approved every single thing that went from the United States to Iraq. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> May the combined efforts of both <b>Houses</b> of the <b>British</b> Parliament finally bring the truth about weapons of mass destruction not just to the American people, but to the entire world.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sometimes described by colleagues in his ministerial days as the cleverest man in the Cabinet, Cook had remained in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> after <b>resigning</b> as Leader of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He told a hushed <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> in March 2003: "The reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war without agreement in any of the leading international bodies in which we are a leading power. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After that he became a regular contributor to <b>British</b> media as well as continuing to voice his criticisms in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Short, who had threatened to <b>resign</b> during the build-up to the war was persuaded to stay on after she was promised that the <b>British</b> government would support a central role for the UN, and that she would have a strong role to play in the rebuilding process on behalf of the <b>British</b> government. </td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Robin Cook, former UK foreign secretary and leader of the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b>, made an impassioned personal statement in parliament following his <b>resignation</b> on Monday. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> None of those 20 years were more enjoyable or more rewarding than the past two, in which I have had the immense privilege of serving this <b>House</b> as Leader of the <b>House</b>, which were made all the more enjoyable, Mr. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term—namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/18/sprj.irq.cook.speech/index.html</font> (1687 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> [Writs for First <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>Election</a>.] For the First <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>Election</a> of Members to serve in the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> the Governor General shall cause Writs to be issued by such Person, in such Form, and addressed to such Returning Officers as he thinks fit. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> [As to <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>Election</a> of Speaker of <b>House</b> of <b>Commons.]</b> The <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> on its first assembling after a General <a href="/topics/By_election" title="By_election" class=fl>Election</a> shall proceed with all practicable Speed to elect One of its Members to be Speaker. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> [As to filling up Vacancy in Office of Speaker.] In case of a Vacancy happening in the Office of Speaker by Death, <b>Resignation</b>, or otherwise, the <b>House</b> of <b>Commons</b> shall with all practicable Speed proceed to elect another of its Members to be Speaker.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Senior Conservatives last night admitted that relations between the leader and Mr Bush broke down in February after Mr Howard called for the Prime Minister's <b>resignation</b> in a <b>Commons</b> debate. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is the Tory leader's position as an outcast from the Bush White <b>House</b> that is now likely to gain the most attention, however. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Labour is bound to seize on the rift as evidence that Mr Howard is suffering the consequences of "opportunistic" attacks on the Government.</td></tr>
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