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  2. UK Parliament petitions website - Wikipedia

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    The number of petitions being presented each year fell considerably in the twentieth century. In the early 2000s, both the Government and the House of Commons began to explore ways for the public to start and sign petitions electronically. [2] The original e-petitions process was created by Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair in November 2006 and ...

  3. Petitions Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Petitions Committee is a parliamentary committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Its role is to oversee petitions submitted to Parliament, including both electronically through the UK Parliament petitions website , and traditional paper petitions.

  4. House of Commons of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Speaker presides over debates in the House of Commons, as depicted in the above print commemorating the destruction of the Commons Chamber by fire in 1834. At the beginning of each new parliamentary term, the House of Commons elects one of its members as a presiding officer, known as the Speaker.

  5. Fact check: General election petition, the law on spiking ...

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    A House of Commons spokesperson confirmed to Full Fact that the data does not show the number of times an individual MP had signed the petition, or the number of signatures using an MP’s name ...

  6. Election petition - Wikipedia

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    Petitions, which resulted in the election in a constituency being held void used to be common after every general election, but are now rare. When an election was held void the House of Commons could seat another candidate, order a new writ issued to fill the vacancy or leave the writ unissued for a time, thus suspending the representation of a ...

  7. Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice - Wikipedia

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    Erskine May (full title: Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice, original title: A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament) is a parliamentary authority originally written by British constitutional theorist and Clerk of the House of Commons, Thomas Erskine May (later the 1st Baron Farnborough).

  8. Petition - Wikipedia

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    A petition is a request to do something, ... Petitions became a common form of protest and request to the British House of Commons in the 18th and 19th centuries; ...

  9. First petitions to new White House site are all about ... - AOL

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    The old site listed dozens of petitions asking the president to do things like ban AR-15 assault rifles or stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Those petitions are all gone.