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In Britain, the House of Commons is a representative assembly
elected by voters or electors through a general election and
by-elections.
66. ______.
A by-election is a
special election held between regular elections. It is an election of a new
Member of Parliament in a single constituency, which takes place when a vacancy
occurs in the Commons as a result of the death or resignation of an MP, or when
an MP is given a peerage.
67. ______.
Suffrage
refers to the right to vote in political elections. In Britain, universal adult
suffrage refers to the right of all adults to vote.
A voter or
an elector is a person who votes or who has the right to vote in political
election. The electorate refers to all the people in a county or in an area who
have the right to vote in an election. On polling day, each voter or elector
goes to cast one vote at a polling station. Every voter writes their choice on a
ballot paper. After mak
[简答题]The House of Commons
[名词解释]the House of Commons
[单项选择]When Tony Blair was elected to Britain’s House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party’s youngest M.R Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed.
Nobody would call Blair, 54 on May 6, boyish today. His face is older and beaten up, his reputation in shreds. Very soon, he will announce the timetable for his departure from office. In a recent poll for the Observer newspaper, just 6% of Britons said they found Blair trustworthy, compared with 43% who thought the opposite. In Britain—as in much of the rest of the world—Blair is considered an unpopular failure.
I’ve been watching Blair practically since he entered politics—at first close up from the House of Commons press
A. The war in Iraq.
B. His ideas in foreign policy.
C. His close relationship with George Bush.
D. His good intention to help the Iraqi peopl
[简答题]The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom’s lower chamber of Parliament.
