Lascelles Principles
Lascelles Principles The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United ... Minister for the dissolution of Parliament. The Lascelles principles are that the monarch could ...
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Alan Lascelles
Alan Lascelles Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles was a British civil servant who held ... to Queen Elizabeth II. He wrote the Lascelles Principles. Lascelles was born on 11 April 1887, ...
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Constitutional convention (political custom)
... legal authority; there are often underlying enforcing principles that are themselves not formal and codified ... a dissolution if requested (since 1832. The Lascelles Principles in 1951 informally outlined the principles and issues that might lead to a ...
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
... next stage, the second reading, the general principles of the bill are debated. At the ... such a refusal are known as the Lascelles Principles. Note, however, that these conditions and principles are merely informal conventions; it is possible ...
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Edward VIII abdication crisis
... would entail a 'grave breach of constitutional principles' and would 'shock many people'. In one ... Government, a fundamental breach of British constitutional principles dating back at least to the Glorious ... that his own Assistant Private Secretary, Alan Lascelles, commented: The best thing that could happen ...
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British monarchy
... Buchanan referred to the early Scottish constitutional principles whereby the monarch was merely primus inter ... action would be warranted are unclear. (See Lascelles Principles.) No parliamentary term may last more than ...
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Talk:Paul Martin/Archive 1
... government", to use a phrase from the Lascelles Principles. If, for example, the party chose one ...
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Talk:Arthur Meighen
... support of the House of Commons" (see Lascelles Principles for the grounds under which the Canadian ...
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King-Byng Affair
... culture with a comedic slant. See also Lascelles Principles External link The King-Byng Affair at ...
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Westminster system
... to bend or break existing conventions. The Lascelles Principles were an attempt to create a convention ...
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