List of Stewards of the Manor of Northstead
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 84 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-1439-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead is a procedural device to allow Members of Parliament to resign from the British House of Commons. Members of the House of Commons are technically forbidden from resigning. To circumvent this prohibition, a legal fiction is used. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP). As such, several such positions are maintained to allow MPs to resign. Currently, the positions of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds are used; historically several other offices have also been used. The position was reworked in 1861 by William Ewart Gladstone, who was worried about the honour conferred by appointment to people such as Edwin James, who had fled to the United States over ?10,000 in debt. As such, the letter was rewritten to omit any references to honour. Данное издание представляет собой...
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