 | Severance Johnson - American wit and humor - 1902 - 74 pages
...gain entrance to two other branches of the State Legislature, which have come to be called the " House of Lords " and the " House of Commons." The first is composed of Senators and the latter of Assemblymen, who constitute the steering committees of their respective... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - Industrial relations - 1905 - 712 pages
...The longshoremen and the dock managers of the Great Lakes now meet twice a year in a grand parliament of two houses, — the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords is a primary assembly of all the dock managers along 1 From the Review of Reviews, March,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 944 pages
...power is vested in the king, acting through his ministers; the legislative, in the Parliament, a body of two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords in 1911 (including the lords spiritual and temporal and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 950 pages
...power is vested in the king, acting through his ministers; the legislative, in the Parliament, a body of two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords in 1911 (including the lords spiritual and temporal and... | |
 | Labor unions - 1912 - 234 pages
...The longshoremen and the dock managers of the Great Lakes now meet twice a year in a grand parliament of two houses, — the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords is a primary assembly of all the dock managers along the lakes, each firm or corporation... | |
 | Robert Niven Gilchrist - Political science - 1921 - 870 pages
...on the advice of the Privy Council, at least twenty days before its assembling. Parliament consists of two Houses, the House of 'Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords is one of the oldest secotad chambers in existence. It has changed very little in its... | |
 | Edgar Willey Ames, Arvie Eldred - Municipal government - 1921 - 412 pages
...government of other countries and that of the United States. In England there is a Parliament composed of two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the former hereditary and the latter elective. This body corresponds to our Congress. At the head of the... | |
 | Edgar Willey Ames, Arvie Eldred - Municipal government - 1921 - 412 pages
...government of other countries and thai; of the United States. In England there is a Parliament composed of two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the former hereditary and the latter elective. This body corresponds to our Congress. At the head of the... | |
 | Kate Rosenberg - Constitutional history - 1926 - 104 pages
...already on the statute book. CHAPTER IV THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS PARLIAMENT consists of two Houses — the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords consists of over seven hundred members, most of whom hold their seats by virtue of hereditary... | |
 | Lars Johnson - Education - 2002 - 26 pages
...conquering them. 15. Edward I created the "Model Parliament" by dividing Parliament's membership into two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The House of Lords was made up of the noblemen and bishops, and the House of Commons was made up of representatives... | |
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Lakes now meet twice a year in a grand parliament of two houses — the House of Lords and the House of Commons. 
