3.(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the termination of a meeting or assembly, such as Parliament 4.(Law) the termination of a formal or legal relationship, such as a business enterprise, marriage, etc 5.the state of being dissolute; dissipation ...
British conventions have emerged in such a manner that those drafting these independence constitutions seem to have responded to two major views on the issue of dissolution: (1) the monarch always dissolves parliament at the request of the prime minister; (2) the prime minister seeks a ...
Some of the highest powers of the British state still technically reside with the Crown, including the right to declare war, conclude treaties and suspend parliament. By convention, those powers are exercised ‘on the advice of the Prime Minister’. But they do not belong to the Prime Minister...
to remain a republic whose president would retain considerableconstitutionaland executive power; a government based on the electoral performance of select political parties would run the country by means of a professionalcivil service, while the judiciary would enforce laws passed by parliament—the...
3.(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the termination of a meeting or assembly, such as Parliament 4.(Law) the termination of a formal or legal relationship, such as a business enterprise, marriage, etc 5.the state of being dissolute; dissipation ...
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first ...
It was during 1975 that I read the great work The Royal Power of Dissolution of Parliament in the British Commonwealth by the eminent Canadian constitutional authority Senator Eugene Forsey.1 Sir Zelman Cowen wrote of it in 1967: 'This book … is the most elaborate study of this important ...