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...The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. This was a time of widespread social disturbance, as the preamble describes; the Act sought to put an end to this. A group of t...

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...Buddhist - Christian Dialogue The Parliament of the World’s Religions, December 2-9, Melbourne, Australia Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11:30am–1:00pm The program of the Parliament paraphrased this workshop in such words as those below. Its four papers stim...

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...Shapurji Saklatvala was a Parsi from India who was elected twice to the British parliament in the 1920s. A communist and an internationalist, he campaigned vigorously inside and outside parliament on behalf of working people everywhere and especially for the cause of an independent India. A celebrated pu...

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...aica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "guided le... ... was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Parliament). His father died in the first world war. In his will... ...hsrat could reject laws passed by the Reichstag. The Lander sported their own state parliaments, local police forces, and judiciary. During states o...

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...1st-century EU structures: common economy, currency, politics, government, parliament, judiciary system and laws (along with specific local ones). At ... ...incorporated into it. And only now, the UN becomes the real government and parliament of the whole humankind. The world is a one whole federation of f... .... I. Material Level: Humankind, now, is one federal state, one government, parliament, judicial system, one policy, economy, society. It is One, but t...

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...to your family members, to your students, to your community, to your member of parliament, to your employees, to your work colleagues and to your ex...

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...ur family members, to your students, to your community, to your member of parliament, to your employees, to your work colleagues and to your executi...

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...y Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, and James I. In the year 1604, the great Act of Parliament against witchcraft, drawn up by Coke and Bacon, was passed...

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...ler fair in Bangkok. This avuncular stranger, a member of the parliament and the former governor of Pattaya, had informed Kumpee that the... ...un by government ministries to raise funds for the Red Cross, was near the Parliament in the area called Dusit. Tickets to enter were sold at 200 bah...

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...mber, 1858, almost a year since the Mutiny had come to Mirapore, the rule of India was, by Act of Parliament, transferred from the Honourable East I...

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...ndus. His current editorial gives us a glimpse of that talk, "Can Everyone Benefit from Yoga?" Bodhinatha's Australian itinerary included the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions, touted as the world's largest interfaith meeting--a reprise of the 1893 meeting that featured Swami Vivekananda. As part of the 2009 program, a rare gathering of Hindu leaders from around ...

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...This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus Corpus Act introduced, the persecution of the Huguenots and troubles in Ireland....

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...Excerpt: Areopagitica; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England () -- THEY, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the pu...

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... i - Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) THEY, who to states and governors of th... ...ates and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that w... ...then see what difference there is between the magnanimity of a triennial Parliament, and that jealous haughti- ness of prelates and Cabin Counse... ...rs, I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parliament of Athens, that persuades them to change the form of democraty... ...witness can ye expect I should produce, than one of your own now sitting in Parliament, the chief of learned men reputed in this land, Mr. Selden; wh... ...e, not once or oftener, but weekly, that continued court libel against the Parliament and City, printed, as the wet sheets can witness, and disperse... ...oubtless took this office up, looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlabori... ...sition, the same I should hear by as learned men at home uttered in time of Parliament against an order of licensing; and that so generally that, w... ...ses might be open; it was the people’s birthright and privilege in time of Parliament, it was the breaking forth of light? But now, the Bishops ab...

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...CHANCES 65 LIBERTINISM ______ 66 REJOINDER ________ 66 MAO TSE-TUNG ____ 66 SATRAPY __________ 66 EXERCISES ________ 66 PLEBEIANS ________ 66 PARLIAMENT ______ 66 PUBLICITY _________ 66 SLEEPING DURING THE NEW YEAR’S NIGHT ________________ 67 DILETTANTE _______ 67 PASSIONATE _______ 67 DICTATORSHIP _____ 67 GROTESQUE _______ 67 BUREAUCRATIZE ___ 67 ESTIMATI...

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...of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a Great Man (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged....

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...Plague, piracy and payments to members of Parliament! The town of Bristol, England in the Sixteenth Century was a fascinating place, and John Latimer's book is a comprehensive guide to this period, describing royal visits from both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, as well...

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...r many adventures, everybody gets what they deserve. Characteristically to Trollope's works, there is also a secondary plot involving the election of parliament in Baslehurst. Summary by Stav Nisser. The book lives still because of its delicate little scenes of comedy, the meeting of the lovers, Mrs. Tappitt's ball, the bedroom confidences of the Tappitts, Rachel's talks w...

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...John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. He was ...