Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had been violated. As a last resort, Benn could still defy the 1678 rule barring peers from Commons by standing for and winning re-election to the House -the device by which Charles Bradlaugh in the late 19th century overturned the rule barring atheists from Commons...
...Benn deserves to succeed," proclaimed the London Times, noting that the rule making peerages irrevocable was originally intended to strengthen the House of Lords against the subversive influence of the King. Added the Times dryly: "That threat has since receded...
...sold at kiosks emblazoned with the initials of the political party hosting the blowout-APRA. By such homespun come-ons, Peru's American Revolutionary Popular Alliance was busily laying the groundwork last week for the 1962 presidential election-and what the movement thinks is its best opportunity to rule in 36 years of struggle...
...unpledged electors or prevents an individual elector from exercising his personal judgment in voting. In fact, such individual discretion was clearly the intention of the framers, for whatever that is worth. But, as the electoral system has evolved toward universal suffrage, the pledged elector has necessarily become the rule rather than the exception...
...West has been supporting "mob rule" in the Congo instead of helping to set up a democratic state through the United Nations, a native of Sagwa, Kenya, now at the University has charged, after sounding the opinion of several African leaders...