词条 | Lascelles Principles |
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The Lascelles Principles were a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom between 1950 and 2011, under which the Sovereign could refuse a request from the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament if three conditions were met:
The convention has been in abeyance since 2011, when the Sovereign's prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. The letterDuring public discussion of the King's potential response to the outcome of the 1950 general election, which returned a very slim Labour Party majority in the House of Commons, the Lascelles Principles were formally stated in a letter by Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI, under the pseudonym "Senex" to the Editor of The Times, published on 2 May 1950:
Thus, the letter asserted the constitutional power of the Sovereign to deny a dissolution, described the conditions for a valid exercise of that power, and referred to relevant precedents: occasions on which requests for parliamentary dissolution not exhibiting these conditions were refused by governors-general of British Commonwealth nations, acting on behalf of the monarch. English historian Peter Hennessy stated in 1994 that the second of the three conditions had since been "dropped from the canon", being no longer included in internal Cabinet Office guidance.[4] See also
References1. ^See: J. B. M. Hertzog 2. ^See: King-Byng Affair and Arthur Meighen: prime minister: second parliament 3. ^{{cite news|url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?toDate=1950-05-03&fromDate=1950-05-02¤tPageNumber=1&resultsPerPage=10&sortBy=default&offset=0&viewName=&addFilters=&removeFilters=&addCat=&queryKeywords=senex§ionId=1040&currPgSmartSet=1&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1950-05-02-05&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1950-05-02-05-007&xmlpath=&pubId=17&totalResults=1&addRefineFilters=&removeRefineFilters=&addRefineCat=&next_Page=false&prev_Page=false&date_dd_From=2&date_mm_From=05&date_yyyy_From=1950&date_dd_to_range=3&date_mm_to_range=05&date_yyyy_to_range=1950&date_dd_from_precise=2&date_mm_from_precise=05&date_yyyy_from_precise=1950&isDateSearch=false&dateSearchType=range&refineQuerykeywordText= |format=letter|title=Dissolution of Parliament: Factors in Crown's Choice|newspaper=The Times|date=2 May 1950|page=5|access-date= 12 September 2008|subscription=yes}} 4. ^The Economist, 24 December 1994, page 32 (cited in [https://books.google.com/books?id=es5j698GBx8C&pg=RA1-PA364&sig=ACfU3U3GK6-Nf2XV0gHseY_Fm6yShKBl0g British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials], Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins, 2007, page 364, {{ISBN|978-0-521-69029-4}}) 3 : Politics of the United Kingdom|Constitutional conventions of the United Kingdom|Royal prerogative |
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