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3 unusual facts about The Parliaments


The Parliaments

In 1967 the Parliaments released "(I Wanna) Testify" on Revilot and finally achieved a hit single, with the song reaching #3 R&B and #20 Pop on the Billboard charts.

Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including "Testify," "The Goose," "All Your Goodies Are Gone," "Fantasy Is Reality," "Good Ole Music," "I Can Feel The Ice Melting," "What You Been Growing," "I'll Wait," and "That Was My Girl."

They switched labels many times, and released several double-sided singles without success, including "Poor Willie" (on Apt Records), "Lonely Island" (on Flipp) and "Heart Trouble" (on Golden World Records).



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Chapter VIII of the Constitution of Australia

The Constitutional Commission which was established by the Hawke government in 1985 recommended in its final report in 1988 that Section 128 be altered to allow the parliaments of the states to initiate referendums by passing bills containing a proposed change.

Cromwell's House

Cromwell's Other House, one of the two chambers of the Parliaments that legislated for England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland

George Rose

George Henry Rose (1771–1855), his son, British Member of Parliament and Clerk of the Parliaments, 1818–1855

Jewish political movements

In the aftermath of the 1905 pogroms in Russia, the historian Simon Dubnow founded the Folkspartei (Yiddishe Folkspartay) which had some intellectual audience in Russia, then, in independent Poland and Lithuania in the 1920–1930s where it was represented as well in the Parliaments (Sejm, Seimas) as in numerous municipal councils (incl. Warsaw) till in the late 1930s.

Reginald Palgrave

Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave KCB (1829 – 13 July 1904, Salisbury) was Clerk of the British House of Commons, a position also known as 'Under Clerk of the Parliaments'.

Scottish Gaelic literature

He delivered a eulogy for the coronation, and remained loyal to the Stuarts after 1688, opposing the Williamites and later, in his vituperative Oran an Aghaidh an Aonaidh, the 1707 Union of the Parliaments.

Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code

The bench of justices G. S. Singhvi and S. J. Mukhopadhaya however noted that the parliaments should debate and decide on the matter.

Statute of Westminster 1931

This means, for example, that any change to the Act of Settlement's provisions barring Roman Catholics from the throne or giving male heirs precedence over females would require the unanimous consent of the parliaments or governments (depending on the wording of each constitution) of all the other Commonwealth realms if the unity of the Crown is to be retained.