Word: veult
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After months of parliamentary wrangling that cut across party lines and set the House of Lords in bitter opposition to the House of Commons, a bewigged clerk intoned La Reine le veult, and the Queen wishing it, a bill restricting capital punishment became law. Under the new Homicide Act, murderers convicted in Britain will be hanged only if their crime...
...bridge between the spiritual and the political worlds: "Men and women, arise! A new age approaches. . . . You were born to see the age of Christian solidarity when wealth will be voluntarily and freely bent to the common good without the need of violence but through love. . . . Dieu le veult...
...Third Reading is carried, Richard, the clerks write some words in Norman French upon it and it is sent along the passage to the House of Lords. There it goes through precisely the same process. ... After the King-or his representatives-gives Le Roy le veult . . . the Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, and those clever people who have for so long been saying 'Why don't you do something?' now unite to say 'Why ever did you do that...
...Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...
...Received the King's assent in traditional Norman French "Le Roy le veult!" ("The King so wills!") to the bill giving India a new federal form and Constitution, this act being the longest ever passed by Parliament (TIME...