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  2. Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom occurs automatically five years after the day on which Parliament first met following a general election, [1] or on an earlier date by royal proclamation at the advice of the prime minister. The monarch 's prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was revived by the Dissolution and Calling ...

  3. Dissolution of parliament - Wikipedia

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    Dissolution of parliament. The dissolution of a legislative assembly (or parliament) is the simultaneous termination of service of all of its members, in anticipation that a successive legislative assembly will reconvene later with possibly different members. In a democracy, the new assembly is chosen by a general election.

  4. Royal prerogative in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity attached to the British monarch (or "sovereign"), recognised in the United Kingdom. The monarch is regarded internally as the absolute authority, or "sole prerogative", and the source of many of the executive powers of the British government.

  5. Petition of Right - Wikipedia

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    1. c. 1. The Petition of Right, passed on 7 June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689. [1] It was part of a wider conflict between Parliament and the Stuart monarchy that led to the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the ...

  6. Can the King and Royal Family Vote in General Elections? - AOL

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    T he U.K. is headed for a general election on July 4, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak requested that King Charles III dissolve parliament earlier this week, sooner than many analysts expected.

  7. Personal Rule - Wikipedia

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    Charles had already dissolved three Parliaments by the third year of his reign in 1628. [2] After the murder of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was deemed to have a negative influence on Charles' foreign policy, Parliament began to criticize the king more harshly than before. Charles then realised that, as long as he could avoid war ...

  8. Prorogation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    King Charles II prorogued the Cavalier Parliament in December 1678 to prevent it continuing with the impeachment of the Earl of Danby. He dissolved Parliament that January and called a new Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Parliament , but prorogued it on 27 May 1679 to prevent it passing the Exclusion Bill (to exclude James II , then Duke of York ...

  9. Royal assent - Wikipedia

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    Monarchy. Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf. In some jurisdictions, royal assent is equivalent to promulgation, while in others that is a separate step. Under a modern constitutional monarchy, royal assent is considered ...