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Meanings of three estates in English
Historical legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland until 1707.
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Examples for "parliament of scotland"
Examples for "parliament of scotland"
1
On the seventeenth of July the session of the Parliament of Scotland closed.
2
The parliament of Scotland, when he first proposed his project, did not think proper to adopt it.
3
The Parliament of Scotland had met.
4
The other Act provided that the Parliament of Scotland should not be dissolved by the death of the King.
5
The Parliament of Scotland was undoubtedly, on this occasion, severe in the wrong place and lenient in the wrong place.
1
The terms of union required the end of a separate Scottish Parliament.
2
The election campaign for the Scottish Parliament got under way in April.
3
The lords of articles were an ancient institution in the Scottish parliament.
4
In 1425 the Scottish Parliament had forbidden Lutheran books to be imported.
5
A year later, elections will follow to the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
1
The difficulty in finding really qualified ministers must be met by fervent prayer, and by compulsion on the part of the Estates of Parliament.
Usage of three estates in English
1
Ours is a government of three estates-viz., the law, opinion, and practice.
2
The Queen.-" Imeanthe three estates-theclergy, the nobles, and the cities."
3
This being touched with the sceptre, the three estates proceeded to elect their representatives.
4
Not in opinion, Sir John, which is one of the three estates of the government.
5
Originally it had consisted of three estates, which answered to the king, lords, and commons.
6
The remonstrance offered by the three estates of Brabant against the scheme had not influenced Philip.
7
He had quickly assembled the three estates at Paris, all of whom promised the king their aid.
8
This sturdy and wholesome contention among the three estates ended at last in the victory of the kings.
9
Life is made up, for such a mind, of men, women, and books; Hawthorne accepted all three estates.
10
Each estate voted as a unit, and two out of the three estates were sufficient to carry a measure.
11
Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above.
12
Is it not, that Hastings really was plotting to defeat the new settlement contrary to the intention of the three estates?
13
Everywhere, too, we find some attempt at representative assemblies, based on the principle of the three estates, clergy, nobles, and commons.
14
The Commons, the poorest of the three estates, established an exclusive right to originate all money grants to the king in 1407.
15
The Despensers had more advanced constitutional ideas than Lancaster, and pains were taken that this parliament should completely represent the three estates.
16
The clergy's speaker said in his address that the three estates, as heretofore, had but one mouth, one heart, and one spirit.
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