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Prolonging or putting off to another day. The discontinuation or termination of a session of the legislature, parliament, or the like. In English Law, a prorogation is the Continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day. In Civil Law, giving time to do a thing beyond the term previously fixed. See also: adjournment, cloture, deferment, delay, dissolution, termination PROROGATION. To put off to another time. It is generally applied to the
English parliament, and means the continuance of it from one day to another;
it differs from adjournment, which is a continuance of it from one day to
another in the same session. 1 Bl. Com. 186.
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Metropolitan problems moreover attracted especially close attention, both because this was the seat of government, and because, by virtue of their office, all active MPs were resident there for some part of each parliamentary session. Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait's emir, tried to give women the right to vote and run for office between parliamentary sessions, but he was overruled, when the male parliamentarians returned. One estimate shows that in three parliamentary sessions of the House of Commons in Britain, held between 1967 and 1971, only 39 amendments were successfully pressed home by opposition members and government backbenchers, despite the fact that thousands of such amendments were moved. |
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