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the General Council of the Valleys parliament of Andorra , has only 28 members?
the Select Vestries Bill read in the House of Lords at the start of each session of Parliament before a debate on the Queen's Speech , to demonstrate that the House chooses and sets its own business independently of the Crown ?
the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace pictured ) of Catherine the Great ?
the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party
the Valencian regional parliament , the Corts Valencianes James I of Aragon ?
the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921 democratic parliamentary election in Sweden ?
Repnin Sejm 1767 -68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin , who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament ) into accepting his demands?
Samuel Jackman Prescod African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados ?
The Book of Sports 1617 declaration of James I of England listing archery and dancing as permissible on Sundays and that Puritans in Parliament had it publicly burned in 1643 ?
the 1643 Westminster Assembly Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession , which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church ?
Beverston Castle ruin , not mainly from its role in warfare , but by a 1646 act of the English parliament to destroy its battlements , lest they be used by Royalists ?
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Question 1 : From 1374, the king had to receive sejm permission to raise ________ .
Question 2 : The House of Lords is the less powerful of the two houses as a result of the ________ .
Question 3 : Ancient Indian , ________ mention of two Parliament-like gatherings of the Indo-Aryan kingdoms called the Sabhā Samiti .
Question 4 : In both these countries, the national parliaments are now called ________ (in Finland also eduskunta ), a word used since the Middle Ages and equivalent of the German word Reichstag .
Question 5 : In 1215, they secured from John the ________ , which established that the King may not levy or collect any taxes (except the feudal taxes to which they were hitherto accustomed), save with the consent of a council.
Question 6 : If members of the lower house lose faith in the leader for whatever reason, they can often call a ________ and force the PM to resign.
Question 7 : The unicameral parliament is first found on record, referred to as a colloquium Kirkliston (a village now in ________ ).
Question 8 : The Parliament of Scotland evolved during the ________ from the King's Council of Bishops and Earls.
Question 9 : From 1443 until the French Revolution several other parliaments were created in some provinces of France (Grenoble , ________ ).
Question 10 : Under the ________ Kings, there was an advisory council, the Witenagemot ("meeting of wise men").
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