The British monarch mayprorogue or even dissolve the Parliament.
The governor of New York may also prorogue the legislature of this State for a limited time; a power which, in certain situations, may be employed to very important purposes.
They were going on with more resolutions in the same spirit, when the usher of the black rod appeared to prorogue them.
Take away from the Governor his power to prorogue and dissolve, leave him the veto, and there will soon be collision.
In the ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Territory will be found this article: "The Governor shall have power to prorogue and dissolve the General Assembly, when, in his opinion, it shall be expedient.
Retain the qualified veto, and take away the power to prorogue and dissolve, and what will be the consequence?
The gentleman would take away from the Territorial Governors the power to prorogue and dissolve the Assemblies.
Thomas Beaufort, then Chancellor of England, to open, continue, and prorogue it.
They may caterwaul in the Reichstag; they may wrangle over the credits and the budget; but the emperor can prorogue them at any time.
The Pan-Germans could easily, if the Reichstag were too independent, counsel the Kaiser to prorogue that debating club altogether.
I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, On Thursday next be married to this County.
The queen being apprised of their design, desired the archbishop to prorogue them for three weeks, before the expiration of which the act of union had passed in parliament.
They voted the earl of Anglesea an enemy to the king and kingdom, because he advised the queen to break the army, and prorogue the late parliament; and they addressed the king to remove him from his council and service.
The duke of Shrewsbury received orders to proroguethis parliament, which was divided against itself, and portended nothing but domestic broils.
At the same time two-and-thirty private bills were passed: then the king expressed his approbation of the parliament, signified his intention to visit his German dominions, and ordered the chancellor to prorogue both houses.
Many remonstrances passed between the two houses; and by their altercations the king was obliged to prorogue the parliament; and he thereby lost the money which was intended him.
The quarrel between the two houses was revived; and as the commons had voted only four hundred thousand pounds, with which the king was not satisfied, he thought proper, before they had carried their vote into a law, to prorogue them.
This expression of jealousy showed the court what they might expect from that assembly; and it was thought more prudent to prorogue them till next winter.
To cut short these disagreeable attacks, the king resolved to prorogue the parliament; and with that intention he came unexpectedly to the house of peers, and sent the usher to summon the commons.
The king therefore resolved to prorogue the parliament, that he might try whether time would allay those humors, which, by every other, expedient, he had in vain attempted to mollify.
And the Governor for the time being shall have full power and authority from time to time as he shall judge necessary, to adjourn, prorogue and dissolve all Great and General Courts or Assemblies met and conven'd as aforesaid.
He told the Council that he had resolved to prorogue the new Parliament for a year, and requested them not to object; for he had, he said, considered the subject fully, and had made up his mind.
His Ministry advised him to prorogue Parliament, and prorogued it accordingly was.
The Family Compact were alarmed, and before any steps could be taken towards entering upon the proposed inquiry they prevailed upon the Governor, Francis Gore, to prorogue the House.
It humbly confessed the king's right to choose all officers of state, and members of the privy council; it acknowledged his right to call and prorogue Parliament; it re-established the tyranny of the Lords of the Articles.
In 1661 the Estates resolved that "the King hath sole power to call and prorogue Parliaments.
Upon Friday next, she comes again to the Parliament House to confirm such Acts as are concluded upon, and to prorogue the Parliament.
The sovereign had never dared to prorogue them against their will, they argued.
Batten tells me the Lords do agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the Irish Bill, and do desire a good correspondence between the two Houses; and that the King do intend to prorogue them the last of this month.
On July 17 the Queen went in State to the House of Lords to prorogue Parliament.
Wentworth was so delighted with his overruling the Irish Parliament, that he proposed to the king to merely prorogue and not dissolve it, as being the most convenient instrument for effecting his further designs on the country.
Even the Council shrank from the king's proposal to prorogue its assembly to the coming November.
Shaftesbury intrigued busily in the City, corresponded with William of Orange, and pressed for a war with France which Charles could only avert by an appeal to Lewis, a subsidy from whom enabled him to prorogue the Parliament.
Should he appear at dawn before the Tuileries, summon the troops already in Paris, and prorogue the hated chambers, or should he not?
The governor-general consented to prorogue the legislature with a view to an immediate appeal to the electors.
The Crown makes a session by summoning and opening parliament, and it is always a royal prerogative to prorogue or dissolve it at its pleasure even before a single act has passed the two Houses.
An address to the king, praying that he would not dissolve nor prorogue parliament until measures had been taken to diminish the influence of the crown, was rejected by a majority of fifty-one.
Epicurean Cookes, Sharpen with cloylesse sawce his Appetite, That sleepe and feeding may prorogue his Honour, Euen till a Lethied dulnesse- Enter Varrius.
O Iuliet, I alreadie know thy griefe, It streames me past the compasse of my wits: I heare thou must and nothing may prorogue it, On Thursday next be married to this Countie Iul.
Government either to prorogue the Assembly to a future day, or dissolve the same,--by which means the sense of this Colony may not be known.
Governour for the time being shall have full power and Authority from time to time as he shall Judge necessary to adjourne Prorogue and dissolve all Great and Generall Courts.
The Parliament is now prorogued only till the 23rd instant, and must meet at that time, because no person but the King has authority to prorogue it further.
The present idea is, to let Parliament meet on the 23rd, because, indeed, no one has authority to prorogue it further.
But if they should again prorogue the Parliament, and wish me to stay, supposing the point not decided, what shall I do?
Lord Keeper is suddenly taken ill of a quinsy, and some lords are commissioned, I think Lord Trevor,[17] to prorogue the Parliament in his stead.
The Sovereign’s Power asserted where he sees Cause toProrogue the Election.
