do the lords sit on?» The presentation of the students of the group ПА-054 Dmitrieva E., Кorepanova M., Rudyashko A.
We think that it can be Buckingham Palace or Westminster Abbey. •
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Our goals: • • • •
Find out where the lords meeting When was the House of Lords shaped How many members are there What kind of power they have
Finally we found out that lords sit on House of Lords which is situated in Westminster Abbey.
The House of Lords meets in a lavishly decorated chamber, in the Gothic style, in the Palace of Westminster.
The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ,which also includes the House of Commons.
• The full, formal title of the House of Lords is The Right
Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
As of July 2008the House of Lords has 746 members, a somewhat higher membership than the 646 seat House of Commons.
Parliament developed from the council that advised the King during medieval times. The House of lords appeared in XIV.
The House of Lords has:
•legislativ e power • judicial authority
Qualifications • Several different qualifications apply for membership of the House of Lords. No person may sit in the House of Lords if under the age of 21. Furthermore, only Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland may sit in the House of Lords. The nationality restrictions were previously more stringent: under the Act of Settlement 1701, and prior to the British Nationality Act 1948, only natural-born subjects were qualified.
Women were excluded from the House of Lords until the Life Peerages Act, passed in 1958 to address the declining number of active members,facilitated the creation of peerages for life.
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