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  • 21Commons — Com mons, n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign.… …

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  • 22The Relugas Compact — was the name given to the political plot hatched between H H Asquith, Sir Edward Grey and R B Haldane to remove Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1905. Why… …

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  • 23Commons (disambiguation) — Commons may refer to: Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Things 4 See also People John R. Commons, economist and labour historian …

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  • 24Commons Daemon — Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation Stable release 1.0.1 Development status Active Written in Java …

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  • 25The Honourable — The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon. or formerly The Hon ble ) is a style used before the names of certain classes of persons.UsageAustraliaIn Australia, all ministers in Commonwealth, states and the Northern… …

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  • 26The Right Honourable — (abbreviated as The Rt Hon. ) is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other Commonwealth Realms, and occasionally… …

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  • 27The Future of Ideas — The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world (2001) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US.It is a continuation of… …

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  • 28the House of Commons — UK US noun (also the Commons) POLITICS ► one of the two chambers (= parts) of parliament in Britain and Canada, whose members are elected to represent a particular area of the country: » When the chancellor rises from his seat in the House of… …

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  • 29commons — ► PLURAL NOUN 1) (the Commons) the House of Commons. 2) (the Commons) historical the common people regarded as a part of a political system. 3) archaic provisions shared in common; rations …

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  • 30Commons Select Committee of Selection — The Commons Select Committee of Selection is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee is to choose the membership of all select committees and all standing committees.The… …

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