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Scandal added to the Government's woes when John Profumo, the Minister for War, was forced to resign after he admitted lying to Parliament over his involvement with the call girl, Christine...
Jun 25, 2008 · In late 1993 John Major agreed that contacts could be made from early 1996 in advance of the next election, rather than only during the last six months of a parliament, as had by then become the convention.’. The object of this short paper is, however, to explain how these rules originated.
- Peter Catterall
- 1997
Aug 7, 2023 · It was on this day in 1964 that a joint session of Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, an act that led to the Vietnam War’s escalation and the eventual passage of another measure seeking to curb presidential powers.
The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 1963–January 1964, vol. 1 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), liii–lxviii] At the end of John F. Kennedy’s two-day visit to five Texas cities, the schedule called for the President to spend Friday night and Saturday morning relaxing at Vice President Johnson’s 438-acre ranch in ...
George III's mental illness then threw up the spectre of a constitutional crisis, with the transfer of sovereignty to the erratic Prince of Wales only narrowly averted by the king's recovery.
Abstract. Opposition is rarely a good preparation for government. The only post‐war government to enter office confident, well‐acquainted with the Civil Service and with a fund of administrative experience to draw on was the Attlee administration formed in 1945.
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Sep 22, 2020 · The paper traces the development of UK ‘state of emergency’ legislation through three ‘scenes of emergency’: the introduction of the Emergency Powers Act in 1920, a revision to the Act in 1964, and discussion within government departments about possible changes to emergency powers in 1973.
