three houses are in the british parliament.
how many houses are in the british parliament?
three
the most celebrated lawsuit heard in midleton's time as lord chancellor was "sherlock v annesley"; although on the face of it this was an unremarkable dispute between cousins over possession of lands in kildare, it raised the sensitive question as to whether the irish or british house of lords was the final court of appeal from ireland, and ultimately put an effective end to the independence of the irish parliament until 1782. the parties ended up with conflicting orders from the two houses entitling each of them to be put in possession; when the barons of the court of exchequer enforced the decree of the british house, the irish house committed them to prison for contempt. this was against the advice of midleton, who though normally a very hot-tempered man, did his best on this occasion to calm matters down. the imprisonment of the judges proved to be a disastrous mistake: the british parliament retaliated with a statute, the dependency of ireland on great britain act 1719, the notorious "sixth of george i", which not only removed the right of appeal to the irish house of lords but asserted the right of the british parliament to pass laws concerning ireland.
alan brodrick, 1st viscount midleton
in 1981, the canadian house of commons and senate passed a resolution requesting that the british parliament enact a package of constitutional amendments which would end the last powers of the british parliament to legislate for canada and would create an entirely canadian process for constitutional amendments. the resolution set out the text of the proposed canada act, which also included the text of the constitution act, 1982. the british parliament duly passed the canada act 1982, the queen granting royal assent on march 29, 1982, 115 years to the day since queen victoria granted royal assent to the constitution act, 1867. on april 17, 1982, the queen signed the proclamation on the grounds of parliament hill in ottawa bringing the constitution act, 1982 into force, thus patriating the constitution of canada. previously, the main portions of the constitution had existed only as an act passed of the british parliament, though under the terms of the statute of westminster, it could not be altered without canadian consent. canada had established complete sovereignty as an independent country, with the queen's role as monarch of canada separate from her role as the british monarch or the monarch of any of the other commonwealth realms.
history of canada