Gericht (Vereinigtes Knigreich) - House of Lords, Privy Council, Oberster Gerichtshof Des Vereinigten Knigreichs, Lord Lyon King of Arms (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: House of Lords, Privy Council, Oberster Gerichtshof Des Vereinigten Knigreichs, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Old Bailey. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The House of Lords (commonly referred to as "the Lords" and also known as House of Peers for ceremonial purposes) is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom's national legislature. Parliament comprises the Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as "the Commons"), and the Lords. The House of Lords, like the House of Commons, assembles in the Palace of Westminster. Unlike the House of Commons, membership of the House of Lords is not attained by election but is instead made up of the Lords Spiritual and the Lords Temporal. The Lords Spiritual are 26 senior bishops of the Church of England who hold office by virtue of their ecclesiastical role within the established church. The Lords Temporal make up the rest of the membership; of these, the majority are life peers who are appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Membership was once a right of birth to hereditary peers, but following a series of reforms these now form only a small portion of the membership. As of April 2010 the House of Lords has 707 members, 57 more than the 650-seat 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 Ireland in Parliament assembled. Today's Parliament of the United Kingdom largely descends, in practice, from the Parliament of England, though the 1706 Treaty of Union and the Acts of Union that ratified the Treaty created a new Parliament of Great Britain to replace the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. This new parliament was, in effect, the continuation of the Parliament of England with the addition of 45 MPs and 16 Peers to represent Scot...http://booksllc.net/?l=de