• The King-in-Council or the Queen-in-Council, depending on the sex of the reigning monarch, is a constitutional term in a number of states. In a general...
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    The King's Privy Council for Canada (French: Conseil privé du Roi pour le Canada), sometimes called His Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the...
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  • legislation is formally made in the name of the monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council (King-in-Council), but in other countries the terminology...
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    Council formally advises the sovereign on the exercise of the royal prerogative. The King-in-Council issues executive instruments known as Orders in Council...
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    King in Council, or Royal Majesty, (most formally Konungen i Statsrådet, but a term for it most often used in legal documents was Kunglig Majestät or...
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    Metropolitan King County Council, the legislative body of King County, Washington, consists of nine members elected by district. The Council adopts laws...
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    monarchy is the foundation of the executive (King-in-Council), legislative (King-in-Parliament), and judicial (King-on-the-Bench) branches of both federal and...
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    to the King, these are almost always exercised by the Council of State in the name of the King (King's Council, or cabinet). Formally the King appoints...
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  • Government of Quebec (category 1867 establishments in Canada)
    formally, His Majesty's Government refers to the activities of the King-in-Council. The day-to-day operation and activities of the Government of Quebec...
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    Government of Ontario (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
    (French: Gouvernement de l’Ontario de Sa Majesté). King Charles III, as monarch of Canada is also the King in Right of Ontario. As a Commonwealth realm, the...
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    In the Westminster system used in many Commonwealth realms, the King-in-Parliament (Queen-in-Parliament during the reign of a queen) is a constitutional...
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    Revolution. In the United Kingdom, Parliament (technically, the King-in-Parliament) was the highest judicial authority. For the colonies, the Privy Council (technically...
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    institutions in the United Kingdom. Established on 14 August 1833 to hear appeals formerly heard by the King-in-Council, the Privy Council formerly acted...
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  • patent and orders-in-Council. Much of the royal prerogative is only exercised in-council, meaning on the advice of the King's Privy Council for Canada (ministers...
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  • King Island Council is a local government body in Tasmania, encompassing King Island and the adjacent minor islands within Bass Strait, in the north-west...
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    King acting on the advice of his Privy Council; what is technically known as the Governor-in-Council, referring to the governor general as the King's...
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    Edward VIII (redirect from King Edward VIII)
    Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December...
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    In the Canadian cabinet, the president of the King's Privy Council for Canada (French: président du Conseil privé du Roi pour le Canada) is nominally in...
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  • Curia regis (redirect from King's Council)
    gis]), Latin for "the royal council" or "king's court", was the name given to councils of advisers and administrators in medieval Europe who served kings...
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  • Crown Dependencies (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2023)
    to pass legislation affecting the islands ultimately rests with the King-in-Council (though this power is rarely exercised without the consent of the dependencies...
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    the phrase "The king is dead, long live the king!"), and the accession of the new sovereign is publicly proclaimed by an Accession Council that meets at...
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    Council of Ministers (Arabic: مجلس الوزراء السعودي Majlis al-Wuzarā' as-Su'ūdī) is the cabinet of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is led by the King....
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    provided that "King county is renamed in honor of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." effective July 24, 2005. The County Council voted on February...
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  • secret crown council. Look up privy, council, privy council, or privy councillor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Council of State Crown Council Executive...
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  • abolished. The 1809 Instrument of Government, created a Council of State, also known as the King in Council (Swedish: Konungen i Statsrådet) which became the...
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    King Edgar the Peaceful's council at Chester took place in AD 973 shortly after Edgar's coronation at Bath. What happened at Chester has been heavily obscured...
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  • Crown Council may refer to: Crown Council of Belgium, the King, his Ministers and the Ministers of State, meeting on rare occasions to advise the King Crown...
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  • "great council" or magnum concilium in Latin), but as a smaller council the curia was in constant session and in direct contact with the king. Originally...
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  • This is a list of members of the King's Privy Council for Canada appointed from 1911 to 1948. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Laird Borden (from October...
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    king of Rome (Latin: rex Romae) was the ruler of the Roman Kingdom. According to legend, the first king of Rome was Romulus, who founded the city in 753...
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