House Rules: Parliamentary Procedure

Mann, Alastair J.

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“…It became the committee in which legislation was drafted and approved before its submission to parliament, and has been considered by historians as an instrument of the royal management of parliament, but recent research has shown that to be true only for the seventeenth century. 100 Gillian MacIntosh and Roland Tanner write that early modern Scotland was "a mixed monarchy in which sovereign authority was exercised by the king with the participation of the political community sitting in parliament. Although parliament was the highest court of the king, the monarch could neither raise taxes nor pass laws without the agreement of the majority of the estates; it was the concept of the crown, and not solely the person possessing the crown, that bound the whole structure together."…”

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Representative government and the fiscal-military state in early modern Britain and Austria

Paccione

2024

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Representative government and the fiscal-military state in early modern Britain and Austria

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“…28 While parliamentary commissions were a normal method of dealing with specific issues, endowing the Lords of the Articles with full power of parliament to deal with a wide portfolio of business was unusual. 29 The rationale for this in 1535 was that there were so 'mony actis' necessary to be passed that 'it ware bayth tedious and sumptuouse to the haile estatis to byde and remane tharupoune'. Although this text makes clear that acts passed in 1535 by this committee were 'to have the samyn forme, strenthe and effecte as the samin ware maid and statute be all the thre estatis beand personaly present', it also provided that they would 'be pronuncit in presens of the kingis grace quhat day and place sall pleise his grace'.…”

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Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528–48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority*

Blakeway

2021

Parliamentary History

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This article for the first time correctly identifies a manuscript previously identified as an ‘official record of parliament’ as a draft of the first printed statutes of the Scottish Parliament, the Actis and Constitutionis of 1542. This discovery has a number of implications for our study of parliament in the period 1528 to 1548, encompassing the personal rule of James V and the beginning of his daughter, Mary Queen of Scots's, minority, which the original manuscript covered. Careful attention to these materials exposes a sophisticated administrative culture, characterised by reviewing and repromulgating statutes, as well as revealing the ghosts of further, now lost, records. Considering the printed text, meanwhile, suggests that parliament and the law played as important a role as history and ceremonial in the assertion of James V's kingship in the years 1540–2: indeed, this should not surprise us given that James's administrators were also his poets. While the Actis of 1542 have hitherto provoked little interest from among historians, they emerge as an important influence on the much better known publication of Scottish statutes from James I to Mary in 1567. The administrators who produced this later volume evidently saw themselves as working within the same tradition as their predecessors of 1542: an increased appreciation of the administrative expertise, careful record‐keeping, attention to the dissemination of statute and the ways in which this bolstered the power of the crown suggests that we ought to do likewise.

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“…31 As a result, the size of Scottish electorates are elusive, however it is generally agreed that they must have been modest. 32 The shire franchise had in 1587 been fixed upon freeholders holding land of at least 40s yearly rent, a fairly restrictive qualification which probably yielded about forty to sixty electors in each shire. In the burghs, the right to vote had been vested in town councils since the fifteenth century, which tended only to contain twenty or so men at any one time, although in 1689, uniquely, all Protestant burgesses were permitted to vote.…”

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Representing the periphery: Highland commissioners in the seventeenth-century Scottish Parliament,c.1612–1702

Kennedy

2015

Parliaments, Estates and Representation

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The pre-1707 Scottish Parliament has been the focus of some extremely lively research over the last two decades, emerging as one of the most vibrant areas of historical scholarship in Scotland with regard to the medieval and early-modern periods. 1 Yet while historians have shed much new light on the composition, procedure, politics and culture of Parliament, significant gaps remain, and one of the most glaring concerns the relationship between Parliament and the localities. Indeed, Alan MacDonald's work on the burghs remains the only sustained effort in print to delineate the ways in which the local communities represented in Parliament interacted with it; most other work tends to approach Parliament as a self-contained entity or as a stage for elites. 2 This is unfortunate, because such a methodology introduces a false dichotomy between legislature and country. Parliament was not only an expression of officialdom and state power, but also a body offering the wider political community an institutional forum for interfacing with government and transmitting their concerns and preoccupations from locality to centre. 3 Seeking to address this lacuna by focusing on the two elected components of Parliament, the burgh and shire commissioners (as representative members were termed in the pre-1707 Scottish 1 The principal works include K.M. Brown et al (eds.

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House Rules: Parliamentary Procedure

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Representative government and the fiscal-military state in early modern Britain and Austria

Representative government and the fiscal-military state in early modern Britain and Austria

Reassessing the Scottish Parliamentary Records, 1528–48: Manuscript, Print, Bureaucracy and Royal Authority*

Representing the periphery: Highland commissioners in the seventeenth-century Scottish Parliament,c.1612–1702

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