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The Braintree Instructions was a document sent on September 24, 1765 by the town meeting of Braintree, Massachusetts to the town's representative at the Massachusetts General Court, or legislature, which instructed the representative to oppose the Stamp Act, a tax regime which had recently been adopted by the British Parliament in London.
In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13,360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.
In 1931, the British Parliament enacted the Statute of Westminster, 1931.
The Commonwealth (i.e. federal) Constitution is entrenched by virtue of being an act of Imperial Parliament which the Commonwealth Parliament only has the power to amend according to its terms.
This was after he had repeatedly been elected as a Member of Parliament and expelled from the British parliament for "outlawry"; essentially what was considered at the time 'obscene and malicious libel' against, among others, George III.
Two years later, as a result of the case, the British Parliament passed the Land Compensation Act 1973.
The Lakshadweep islands were a part of the Madras Presidency under the British Raj and in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947, enacted by the British parliament, the islands were transferred to the new Union of India.
Under the proposals Malta would retain its own parliament, but would also elect members to the British parliament.
He represented the Cornish constituencies of Bossiney (1786–90), Tregony (1790–95) and St Germans (1806–12) in the British Parliament and succeeded his brother as 4th Baron Rokeby in 1829.
With the 1931 Statute of Westminster, the complete independence of the Dominions was confirmed by the British Parliament, though this was not adopted in New Zealand until some time later, through the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947.
The Newspaper Publication Act 1798 (38 Geo. III, c. 78) was an Act passed by the British Parliament.
Major-General Nisbet Balfour (Dunbog, 1743 – 10 October 1823, Dunbog) was a British soldier in the American War of Independence and later a Scottish Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament.
The resolutions were part of a widespread movement of town and county protests of the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
The Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 was a piece of legislation passed by the British Parliament to counter American assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
He was also a Liberal Member of British Parliament mentioned in The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets (4th edition 1931) as a contributor to such works as Fairy Tales for Old and Young (1909), and The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (1940).
The Seditious Meetings Act 1795 (36 Geo.3 c.8), approved by the British Parliament in November 1795, was the second of the well known "Two Acts" (also known as the "Gagging Acts" or the "Grenville and Pitt Bills"), the other being the Treason Act 1795.
Until the 1830s, the Anglican church in Canada was synonymous with the Church of England: bishops were appointed and priests supplied by the church in England, and funding for the church came from the British Parliament.
The Unlawful Oaths Act 1797 (37 Geo. III, c. 123) was an Act passed by the British Parliament.
Andrew MacKay (1949-), Conservative politician; Member of the British Parliament
The Canada Act 1982 (1982 c. 11) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was passed at the request of the Canadian federal government to "patriate" Canada's constitution, ending the necessity for the country to request certain types of amendment to the Constitution of Canada to be made by the British parliament.
The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Bob Weir dedicated "He's Gone" to Bobby Sands, a member of the British Parliament who died on a hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze on May 5, 1981.
After Minden, King George II of Great Britain gave the duke the Order of the Garter, and the thanks of the British parliament were voted on the same occasion to the victor of Minden.
After Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication on 10 December 1936, the British government communicated with the Dominion governments, who agreed to the passage of the Abdication Act by the British Parliament.
At the British Parliament, Charles James Fox praised his defence of his ship, comparing him to Roman and Greek heroes.
In 1813, when the British parliament was considering the renewal of the charter that authorized Company's trade and political control in India, Members of Parliament who were evangelical Christians, especially Methodists and Baptists, inducedforced the Company to permit missionaries to settle in their territory.
Sir John McTaggart, 1st Baronet (1789–1867), Scottish Liberal MP in the British Parliament
Under the 18th century reign of George I, the British Parliament expanded the law to protect the plant on English coasts.
The 1876 Medical Act was introduced into the British Parliament by Russell Gurney, husband of Emilia Russell Gurney a member of the Kensington Society, and received Royal Assent the same year.
A member of the British Parliament, Andrew Robathan, stated that "it is generally accepted that General Morgan, who was in Siad Barre's Government at the time, was responsible for the shooting of a large part of the male population of Hargeysa."
When Anglo-European Caucasian settlers first arrived in 1836 at Holdfast Bay (now Glenelg), the land was considered in the 1834 South Australia Act passed by the British Parliament and by Governor Hindmarsh as Commander in chief in his Proclamation of 1836, to be a barren wasteland.
On June 22, 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act; it annexed the region to the province of Quebec.
In 1849, an article about James Brooke's anti-piracy activities was instrumental in encouraging Joseph Hume to raise questions in the British Parliament and, together with a petition from Singapore traders which he took round for signature in 1851, eventually culminated in an Inquiry held in Singapore in the autumn of 1854.
William Adam of Blair Adam (1751–1839), Scottish Member of the British Parliament and judge
In May 2011, Lord Triesman gave evidence in the British Parliament that Makudi had demanded the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team in return for voting for England to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.