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	Speaker of the British House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land.
		The Speaker does not vote in the division, except when the Ayes and Noes are tied, in which case he or she must use the casting vote.
		The Speaker is one of the highest-ranking officials in the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_Kingdom_House_of_Commons (4234 words)

	House of Representatives Factsheet: The Speaker
		The Speaker is the spokesperson for the House (hence the derivation of the name 'Speaker') in its relations with the other constituent parts of the Parliament—the Senate and the Sovereign (represented by the Governor-General), the other arms of government—the Executive and the Judiciary, and with other outside bodies and persons.
		The Speaker is considered to be by law, or is in effect, 'Minister' for the Department of the House of Representatives, having a similar role to that of a Minister of State in relation to a government department.
		The Speaker is elected for the duration of a Parliament.
	www.australianpolitics.com /parliament/factsheets/03speaker.htm (2124 words)

	House of Commons, London
		The Speaker is so called because it was originally his responsibility to speak to the monarch representing the views of the House of Commons - a responsibility which could at times be hazardous.
		To this day a newly elected Speaker is expected to put on a show of reluctance when he or she is conducted to the chair for the first time.
		The anteroom to the House of Commons is the Commons' Lobby, a square chamber in Gothic style with statues of 20th century statesmen (including bronze figures of Sir Winston Churchill and Lloyd George).
	www.planetware.com /london/house-of-commons-gb-l-hco.htm (450 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
		The United Kingdom Parliament is composed of the Crown, that is the monarch, the House of Lords, an appointive and hereditary upper chamber, and the popularly elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.
		Under its present-day form, the leader of the party commanding a majority in the House of Commons heads the government as prime minister, with members of his (or her) Cabinet being likewise drawn from the majority.
		These commissions are presided by the non-partisan Speaker of the House of Commons, and their recommendations, which are supposed to be free of political bias, have to be approved by the House of Commons.
	electionresources.org /uk (2550 words)

	The Speaker of the House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The importance of the Speaker’s role is underscored by the fact that the Constitution requires the House of Commons to elect a Speaker.
		In overseeing the proceedings of the House, the Speaker seeks to maintain the balance between two fundamental operating principles of Parliament: to allow the majority to conduct business in an orderly manner and to protect the right of the minority to be heard.
		The Speaker is ranked fifth in Canada's Table of Precedence, behind the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Speaker of the Senate.
	www.parl.gc.ca /publications/HOC-e.htm (1006 words)

	math lessons - Irish House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from from mediæval times until 1800.
		The upper house was the House of Lords.
		The House of Commons was abolished when the Irish parliament merged with its British counterpart in 1801 under the Act of Union.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Irish_House_of_Commons (302 words)

	House of Commmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The origins of the House of Commons date from the second half of the 13th century, when landholders and other property owners in the counties and towns began sending representatives to Parliament to present grievances and petitions to the king and to accept commitments to the payment of taxes.
		The House of Lords retained its veto power over bills passed by the Commons, however, and in 1832 the only recourse of the Liberal Party government was to threaten to flood the House of Lords with new Liberal peers in order to prevent it from rejecting that government's Reform Bill.
		Almost all legislation proceeds from the majority party in the Commons, which forms the government and the cabinet; the latter is composed of senior ministers chosen by the prime minister from members of his party, nearly all of whom serve in the House of Commons.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/HouseOfCommons/HouseOfCommons.html (1192 words)

	ICL - United Kingdom - "Constitution" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The other House in the British Parliament is the non-elected House of Lords, which is normally a chamber of discussion and revision of proposals and not a rival to the Commons.
		The House of Commons is directly responsible to the electorate, and in this century the House of Lords has recognized the supremacy of the elected chamber.
		The records of the Lords from 1497 and of the Commons from 1547, together with the parliamentary and political papers of a number of former members of both Houses, are available to the public through the House of Lords Record Office.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/uk00000_.html (8922 words)

	UNITED KINGDOM: parliamentary elections House of Commons, 2001
		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Commons after the dissolution of Parliament in May 2001.
		On 14 May 2001, Parliament was officially dissolved by proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II and 3,319 candidates registered to contest the 659 seats in the House of Commons.
		On 13 June 2001, Mr Michael Martin was re-elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2335_01.htm (449 words)

	speaker \| Houses of Parliament
		The Speaker, currently Rt Hon Michael Martin, MP for Glasgow, North East, is in fact the chief officer of the House of Commons.
		It has become a generally accepted principle that, once the Speaker has been elected in one Parliament, he or she is re-elected in subsequent Parliaments and thus remains in office until he or she chooses to retire.
		Speakers are elected at the beginning of each new Parliament (ie after every General Election), or when the previous Speaker dies or retires.
	www.parliament.uk /works/speaker.cfm (764 words)

	svend robinson house of common debates
		Speaker, could the minister clarify two points for the House today and for Canadians who are very concerned about the possibility of military strikes on the people of Iraq who have already suffered such terrible anguish and pain as a result of the impact of economic sanctions?
		Speaker, I hope to make it clear in my remarks that the reason for our support for the British and American initiative to have a new Security Council resolution is based in a history and an understanding of what has taken place in the past.
		In fact, members of the House must know that according to the former chief UN weapons inspector, Rolf Ekeus of Sweden, the United States and other Security Council members were manipulating UN inspection teams for their own political ends.
	www.4data.ca /ottawa/archive/svenRobison.html (2281 words)

	commons
		Speakers must leave their seats and come to the front of the semi-circle in order to present their arguments, often in the form of a written speech.
		In the United Kingdom, the extensive middle-ground of the political spectrum is usually dominated by one of the two major parties, Conservative or Labour.
		The Speaker judges the result of the vote from his/her perception of the relative strength of the oral response, that is, if the Speaker feels that the Ayes are louder than the Noes, the motion is passed and vice versa.
	web.udl.es /usuaris/m0163949/commons.htm (7516 words)

	The House
		The House of Commons consists of members elected at a General Election and the House of Lords is the Upper House, essentially a revising chamber, originally made up of life and hereditary peers, recently reformed to removed most if not all of the hereditary peers, with further reform under consultation.
		The constitution of the United Kingdom consists of the Queen and her Lords and Commons, with a Church of England by law established.
		The House of Commons Commission is the supervisory body of the House of Commons administration and is responsible for its policy, finance and staff.
	www.stuartbellmp.org /thehouse.htm (719 words)

	Editor
		In contrast with most other countries the United Kingdom has no written constitution, nor is there any doctrine of the supremacy of the constitution over other legislation, nor any constitutional court, nor any doctrine of the separation of powers.
		Britain is a signatory of the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol and continues to meet its obligations to refugees as a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religious, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
		The Speaker has discretion on whether to allow a motion to end discussion so that a matter may be put to the vote and has powers to put a stop to irrelevance and repetition in debate, and to save time in other ways.
	www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/uk.html (8756 words)

	World Law: United Kingdom
		Whilst the United Kingdom was one of the first countries to ratify the European Convention on Human Rights - indeed, much of the document was drafted by British lawyers - it has always denied the necessity of needing to incorporate the law into domestic law.
		The Speaker of the House of Commons has a special place in the constitution of the United Kingdom.
		The Speaker is there to ensure that the legislature is able to scrutinise the acts of the Executive which in British politics is not an easy task since the Executive is always the party which has the most seats in the legislature.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/uk2.htm (1642 words)

	Speaker of the House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is well known that the deputies of the United Provinces have, in various instances, been purchased by the emissaries of the neighboring kingdoms.
		The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.
		The treaties of the United States, under the present Constitution, are liable to the infractions of thirteen different legislatures, and as many different courts of final jurisdiction, acting under the authority of those legislatures.
	speaker.house.gov /library/texts/Federalist/article22.asp (2572 words)

	House of Commons -- Debate on international aspects of the Lockerbie case in view of the Scotland Act 1998 -- 1 May 2002
		House of Commons -- Debate on international aspects of the Lockerbie case in view of the Scotland Act 1998 -- 1 May 2002
		After all, United Nations matters are surely matters for Westminster and not for the Mound.
		Speaker, and to the point raised by the Father of the House.
	i-p-o.org /house-of-commons-lockerbie-1may02.htm (749 words)

	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Parliament: House of Commons
		The composition of the House of Commons based on political party as of February 2, 2006 is outlined in the chart below.
		The chief procedural adviser to the Speaker and to Members of the House of Commons and Secretary to the Board of Internal Economy.
		The Debates are often identified as "Hansard" which is the name of the British family once responsible for the transcription of the proceedings of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom.
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/house.html (909 words)

	The Citizen's Guide to the Alberta Legislature - The Speaker
		When Speaker Finch rose to obey the king's order, angry Members of Parliament tried to force him to remain in the chair, reminding him that he was supposed to be their servant, not the king's.
		Speaker Finch and Charles I won that dispute and dissolved Parliament, but 13 years later, when the United Kingdom was on the verge of civil war, Charles barged into the Chamber and demanded the surrender of five
		By the end of the 17th century the Speaker was an appointee of Parliament and not of the monarch.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /pub/gdbook/Part3/page8.htm (1003 words)

	GlobaLex - A Guide to the UK Legal System
		The House of Commons consists of 659 Members of Parliament (MPs), elected by simple majority vote in a general election every five years, although the Government has the right to call an election at any time before then, and in practice usually brings the date forward to secure electoral advantage.
		The House of Lords until recently consisted of life peers, awarded peerages for public service, and a large number of hereditary peers whose membership of the House of Lords depended on their aristocratic birth.
		House of Lords judgments are available on the web from 1996, and within 2 hours of the decision.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/United_Kingdom.htm (4744 words)

	CNN - Speaker bars Sinn Fein from opening Commons office - May 14, 1997
		LONDON (CNN) -- The House of Commons speaker ruled Wednesday that Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political arm, cannot set up offices in Parliament unless the party's two new lawmakers swear allegiance to the queen.
		The ruling by Speaker Betty Boothroyd, to cheers from lawmakers, thwarted a plan by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and his deputy, Martin McGuinness, to set up an office in the Commons.
		McGuinness, 47, who was convicted in 1973 of being an IRA member, and Adams, 48, captured two of the 18 Northern Ireland seats in the Commons in Britain's May 1 general election, won by the Labour Party.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/14/sinn.fein (590 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Time to modernise the Commons?
		The House of Commons has worked well for centuries, slowly (admittedly, sometimes too slowly) evolving into the modern democratic institution that it is...
		The Commons was quick to press reform on the Lords; it is about time that it saw the beam in its own eye, rather than the mote in its brother's eye.
		The real scandal, as far as the House of Commons is concerned, is the way in which the debate-challenged Tony Blair ignores it, governing by soundbite and news conference instead.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/988342.stm (2126 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Speaker Hastert Heads to Scotland for G8 Meetings..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On Friday, September 16, Speaker Hastert will lead his fellow Speakers in a service of Prayer and Remembrance in recognizing the victims of Hurricane Katrina, heeding President Bush's call for a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance here in the United States.
		Michael Martin, MP, Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom.
		Pier Ferdinando Casini, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Italy;
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=53475 (249 words)

	House of Commons: Tied Divisions
		This page records all occasions since the establishment of the United Kingdom Parliament that there has been an ‘equality of voices’ in a division of the House of Commons.
		Another rule was established by Speaker Denison in 1867 on the occasion of the tie on Trinity College Fellowships.
		The final rule is that the Speaker, in any division upon a bill, should vote to leave a bill in its existing form.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /ties.html (1432 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| BBC Parliament \| Commons Committee Stage
		When a Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons, it is usually referred to a standing committee for detailed examination.
		At the conclusion of the committee stage the bill is reported back to the House (amended or not as the case may be) to await report stage and third reading.
		The chairman for these sittings is chosen by the Speaker, but not necessarily from the Chairmen's Panel, the usual practice being to appoint the Chairman of the relevant departmental committee for this purpose.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/2298941.stm (612 words)

	The Senate Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Speaker Dan Hays, accompanied by Senators Alasdair Graham, P.C. (Lib-The Highlands, Nova Scotia) and Norman Atkins (PC-Markham, Ontario), paid a working visit to the United Kingdom from December 2 to 7, 2003.
		Discussions dealt with recent reforms to the House of Lords, its Code of Conduct and Registrar of Interests, the role of the proposed Speaker of the Lords (to replace the position of Lord Chancellor) and proposals made for modernizing the Lords.
		On March 8, Speaker Hays represented Canada at the state funeral of former Barbadian Prime Minister Sir Harold St. John, who served as prime minister from March 1985 to May 1986 and was a Member of Parliament for 37 years until his retirement in 2003.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/senate/senatereport/08-04/SenRepJuly2004-e07.htm (609 words)

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