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  2. House of Lords - Wikipedia

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    (The House of Commons, however, often waives its privileges and allows the Upper House to make amendments with financial implications.) Moreover, the Upper House may not amend any Supply Bill. The House of Lords formerly maintained the absolute power to reject a bill relating to revenue or Supply, but this power was curtailed by the Parliament ...

  3. Standing orders in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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    Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords can set standing orders to regulate their own affairs. These contain many important constitutional norms, including the government's control over business, but it ultimately rests with a majority of members in each House.

  4. Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The House of Commons is free to waive this privilege, and sometimes does so to allow the House of Lords to pass amendments with financial implications. The House of Lords remains free to reject bills relating to Supply and taxation, but may be over-ruled easily if the bills are Money Bills.

  5. House of Commons of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The word has survived to this day in the original Anglo-Norman phrase soit baillé aux communes, with which a bill is transmitted from the House of Lords to the House of Commons. [7] The historian Albert Pollard held a somewhat different view on the word's origins in 1920.

  6. Parliament of England - Wikipedia

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    It proposed an elected House of Commons as the Lower Chamber, a House of Lords containing peers of the realm as the Upper Chamber. A constitutional monarchy, subservient to parliament and the laws of the nation, would act as the executive arm of the state at the top of the tree, assisted in carrying out their duties by a Privy Council.

  7. House of Commons - Wikipedia

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    The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister ...

  8. List of members of the House of Lords - Wikipedia

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    A request that this article title be changed to List of current members of the House of Lords is under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. This is a list of members of the House of Lords , the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .

  9. Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The House of Commons set up eight regional select committees in November 2008, whose members were first appointed on 3 March 2009. The committees were formed of five Labour members, as opposed to the nine members from various parties as was agreed in the original motion, due to the refusal of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to nominate ...