09-17-2007, 05:28 PM
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have it in command from His Majesty the King to inform you that there has been a Proclamation passed under the Great Seal of Hanover which concerns this present Parliament, in tenor following:
I have it in command from His Majesty the King to inform you that there has been a Proclamation passed under the Great Seal of Hanover which concerns this present Parliament, in tenor following:
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<center>BY THE KING A PROCLAMATION
REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO RESOLVE UPON CERTAIN GRAVE ISSUES AFFECTING THE KINGDOM
Alexander R.</center>
AT DIVERSE TIMES throughout the years of Our Reign, we have gathered together with Our loving subjects with the lofty aim of forever deciding and settling not only the fundamental laws of Our Kingdom of Hanover, but also the very principles and structure of her society. In the Royal Nationhood Commission, at the Congress of Bergen, at the Emden Conference, and elsewhere, We and Our loving subjects strove to perfect the substance of Our Realm; despite the high goals and immense efforts of those times, We have found that a dearth of certainty and clarity in both law and custom remains rampant in all corners of Our Kingdom.
WISHING now to make a lasting determination and statement of the manner in which Our Realm is to be governed, and the principles by which her society is to be organized, without the ill-considered and abrupt innovations which have often attended past efforts towards this end, We now require of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, presently assembled in the Parliament at Bergen:—
THAT they should treat and resolve amongst themselves concerning the degree to which Our Realm should take the United Kingdom of Great Britain as an exemplar and model of good governance and well-ordered society, determining also whether the external forms used in the United Kingdom or the substantive principles are more worthy of emulation;
AND THAT they further treat and resolve concerning the role which We, and Our Heirs and Successors, shall have in Our High Court of Parliament; in fine, We require that they should determine whether the Crown shall be only a check and balance upon the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, or an integral member of the Parliament, possessing a voice and initiative in all matters, as We have in Our Most Honourable Privy Council;
FOR WHICH PURPOSE We shall require them to attend Us personally in the manner which has been in the past appointed for meetings of Our Royal Court, rather than on Our national discussion fora, at such a time as We shall, after conferring with them, think fit to appoint.
<center>Given at Our Court of Saint George's Palace this Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.
GOD SAVE THE KING!</center>
REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO RESOLVE UPON CERTAIN GRAVE ISSUES AFFECTING THE KINGDOM
Alexander R.</center>
AT DIVERSE TIMES throughout the years of Our Reign, we have gathered together with Our loving subjects with the lofty aim of forever deciding and settling not only the fundamental laws of Our Kingdom of Hanover, but also the very principles and structure of her society. In the Royal Nationhood Commission, at the Congress of Bergen, at the Emden Conference, and elsewhere, We and Our loving subjects strove to perfect the substance of Our Realm; despite the high goals and immense efforts of those times, We have found that a dearth of certainty and clarity in both law and custom remains rampant in all corners of Our Kingdom.
WISHING now to make a lasting determination and statement of the manner in which Our Realm is to be governed, and the principles by which her society is to be organized, without the ill-considered and abrupt innovations which have often attended past efforts towards this end, We now require of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, presently assembled in the Parliament at Bergen:—
THAT they should treat and resolve amongst themselves concerning the degree to which Our Realm should take the United Kingdom of Great Britain as an exemplar and model of good governance and well-ordered society, determining also whether the external forms used in the United Kingdom or the substantive principles are more worthy of emulation;
AND THAT they further treat and resolve concerning the role which We, and Our Heirs and Successors, shall have in Our High Court of Parliament; in fine, We require that they should determine whether the Crown shall be only a check and balance upon the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, or an integral member of the Parliament, possessing a voice and initiative in all matters, as We have in Our Most Honourable Privy Council;
FOR WHICH PURPOSE We shall require them to attend Us personally in the manner which has been in the past appointed for meetings of Our Royal Court, rather than on Our national discussion fora, at such a time as We shall, after conferring with them, think fit to appoint.
<center>Given at Our Court of Saint George's Palace this Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.
GOD SAVE THE KING!</center>