Word: parliamen
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...Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance as I am asking it to take tonight." By the clever parliamen tary maneuver of allowing a free vote by Tory M.P.s-thereby making it harder for the Labor Party to impose discipline on its own pro-Marketeers-he assured a majority and also brightened his image in Britain and on the Continent. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, by contrast, emerged from...
...Bottles. All the parliamen tary rows and ministerial switches, says Luethy, have precious little to do with" the governing of France, which is actually one of the world's most stable and conservative societies. The "anonymous, pro saic, tremendously persistent . . . host of official., jurists, clerks and bookkeepers [who have survived] forty kings and nearly as many revolutions and coups "d'ét" administer the enormously centralized state with all the finality of one thousand years' unbroken tradition. These "supreme luminaries who control the state itself, its legislation, its finances and its personal politics, are totally removed from...
...masterly modernization of a great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
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