Giving more power to a rather "unrepresentative" European Parliament is not likely to enhance the EU's democratic credentials. Probably the key to addressing the existing democratic deficit would be to adopt a European constitution that would clarify what are the Union's basic objectives and what ...
On June 20, 1840, Daniel O'Connell, a member of Parliament from Ireland, spoke on behalf of India. Addressing the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, O'Connell invoked "another mighty movement on behalf of humanity; and that relat... CM Florio - 《Journal of American History》 被引...
The three were ordered to inquire into whether the chaplain had gone against ‘the late act of Parliament for uniformity of public prayer, set down at the beginning of the new liturgy of the Church of England’.Footnote 201 The deposition heard that Broadgate had not only opened up the ...
Under the 1952 constitution as amended, the most powerful political and military figure in the country is the king, who is head of state. The government is headed by the prime minister, who is appointed by the monarch. The bicameral parliament consists of the 75-seat Chamber of Notables, ...
The Regulating Act (1773) and William Pitt the Younger’s India Act (1784) established government control of political policy through a regulatory board responsible to Parliament. Thereafter the company gradually lost both commercial and political control. Its commercial monopoly was broken in 1813, ...
About the same time, the British Parliament began regulating the East India Company through successive India Acts, bringing Bengal under the indirect control of the British government. Over the next eight decades, a series of wars, treaties, and annexations extended the dominion of the company ...
“Mesopotamian turn” in IR. The assumption is that religion is present at each level of IR analysis in the Middle East and, thanks to that, more and more at the international system level. This presence of religion serves to undermine one of the basic assumptions lying at the heart of ...
ABritish doctor who escaped Gazawith his family has been sent back to the war zone after Egyptian officials told him his name wasn’t on the list of evacuees, according to a British Member of Parliament. Dr. Ahmed Sabra was in Gaza when Israel declared war on Hamas following the militant...