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Supreme :: Supremacy (n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament..

Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan..

Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments..

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the Solemn League and Covenant..

Parliamentarily :: Parliamentarily (adv.) In a parliamentary manner.

Session :: Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term..

Protest :: Protest (v.) A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament..

Whig :: Whig (n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in Englis

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken..

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference.

Division :: Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote..

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power..

Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house..

Act :: Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress..

Triennial :: Triennial (a.) Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign..

Blue Book :: Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers..

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