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In a letter published in Jordanian newspapers on Wednesday, King Abdullah urged Prime Minister Bakhit to push through parliament reforms the monarch proposed in February, after the last prime minister was sacked.
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The investiture of the new king before a joint session of parliament later in the day will be the high point of a year of celebrations marking the end of the Napoleonic occupation in 1813.
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Instead, some appear to favour grafting the model that prevails in Jordan, where King Abdullah intermittently suspends parliament and rules by decree, but maintains stability, refuses to threaten Israel and listens as keenly to his foreign backers as he does to his own people.
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Conservative MSP David McLetchie recalled the original Claim of Right, passed by the old Scots Parliament in 1689, which declared King James VII (James II of England) had forfeited the throne "because he had sought to change what it described as the fundamental constitution of the kingdom from a legal, limited monarchy to an arbitrary, despotic power".
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After all, King George did not claim the right to ignore Parliament in his borrowing.
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It was the politicians who dissolved their own parliament in the first place, opening the way for the king to seize power.
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Before Gadhafi's coup in 1969, Libya was a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, constitution and king.
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"The king has accepted my request to dissolve parliament effective 3 April, " Mr Najib said in the address.
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The reason given for dissolving parliament was that King Abdullah judged it incapable of drafting a fairer electoral law in time for the election due in November.
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In 1534, England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
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The king consulted parliament over the cabinet's make-up for the first time, after constitutional changes introduced in the wake of the Arab Spring.
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