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  • whereas in Scotland and Northern Ireland devolution extended to wide powers to pass laws. The Scottish legislative authority is the Scottish Parliament. The...
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  • escape to Scotland, but the Scottish army delivered him to Parliament in 1647. Charles was then imprisoned. Charles negotiated with the Scottish army, declaring...
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  • whereas in Scotland and Northern Ireland devolution extended to wide powers to pass laws. The Scottish legislative authority is the Scottish Parliament. The...
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  • Parliament Previous Chapter | Next Chapter Parliament is the supreme law-making body in the United Kingdom. It is made up of two Houses of Parliament...
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  • in Scotland (from 2007) and Northern Ireland. STV is also used for European Elections in Northern Ireland. Used to elect the Scottish Parliament, the...
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  • in Geneva, returned to Scotland and led the Parliament of Scotland to embrace the Reformation in 1560. The Church of Scotland was eventually reformed...
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  • the English Parliament, especially towards the end. Nonetheless, James tempered his ambitious . He also aspired to unite England and Scotland into one country...
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  • Members of the European Parliament for Northern Ireland are elected using Single Transferable Vote (STV). MEPs for England, Scotland and Wales are elected...
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  • 1603 Scotland had shared the same monarch as England (and Wales and Ireland). They took place mainly in Scotland, with the backing of Catholic Scottish Highlander...
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  • Scottish nobles, putting her infant son James on the throne. Mary had fled to England, hoping Elizabeth would aid her efforts to regain the Scottish throne...
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  • reinstatement of the original act by Queen Elizabeth I. Adam Smith (1723-1790) - Scottish economist and philosopher, author of The Wealth of Nations, thought of...
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  • elections. The devolved institutions in the UK are the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru), and the Northern Ireland Assembly. These...
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  • the union of the Scottish and English parliaments in 1707, English became the language of government and of polite society in Scotland, though the vast...
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  • James I who united England and Scotland under one monarch, a visible rift first began to develop between King and Parliament over the issues such as religion...
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  • England engaged in the two Bishops Wars with Scotland, then suffered through two civil wars as the English Parliament and the King clashed over the direction...
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  • important elements of the British constitution are to be found in Acts of Parliament. In contrast with many other countries, legislation affecting the constitution...
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  • important elements of the British constitution are to be found in Acts of Parliament. In contrast with many other countries, legislation affecting the constitution...
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  • hundreds of Jews, and in 1290 banished all of them from England. In 1291, the Scottish nobility agreed to submit to Edward. When Queen Margaret I died, the nobles...
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  • Tony Blair. Under Blair, many of Parliament's lawmaking functions were devolved to local administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1999...
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  • Civil Wars in the 1640s affirmed the primacy of Parliament over the Crown. The Act of Union with Scotland in 1707, effectively a business merger between...
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