parliament. Like the House of Lords, the Chamber of Peers also had a judicial function, being authorized to judge peers and other prominent people. As such...
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The Chamber of Peers or House of Peers refers to the legislative upper house in several countries with a peerage: Chamber of Peers (France) from 1814 to...
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Council Chamber of Peers (France) Chamber of Most Worthy Peers (Portugal) Chamber of Peers (Spain) Chamber of Princes (British India) House of Peers (Japan)...
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the Bourbon Restoration, which followed the fall of the First French Empire, when the Chamber of Peers was given a constitutional function somewhat along...
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The Chamber of Peers of Portugal, alternatively translatable as the House of Lords and formally styled the Chamber of the Most Worthy Peers of the Realm...
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of Peers; also the exclusive right to be granted State or Land dignities and titles. The Skartabelli who were middle-nobility in law were not peers,...
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the chamber on the British House of Lords, as a counterweight to the popularly elected House of Representatives (Shūgiin). In 1889, the House of Peers Ordinance...
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Bicameralism (redirect from Second Chamber)
elected by all sitting peers. Hereditary peers elected by the House to sit as representative peers sit for life; when a representative peer dies, there is a...
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Peers or peers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peers may refer to: Donald Peers Edgar Allison Peers, English academician Gavin Peers John Peers,...
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The House of Peers (Spanish: Estamento de Próceres) was the upper house in the Spanish Cortes between 1834 and 1836. The House was created by the Royal...
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