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  • 21The Form of Apology and Satisfaction — of 1604 was a document drawn up by a House of Commons committee protesting against King James I s handling of recent political issues.For a variety of reasons King James I had upset many in the House of Commons in his first Parliament. These… …

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  • 22Commons — 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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  • 23The 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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  • 24Commons (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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  • 25Commons Daemon — Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation Stable release 1.0.1 Development status Active Written in Java …

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  • 26The 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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  • 27The 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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  • 28The 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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  • 29the 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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  • 30commons — ► 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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