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The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom describing the circumstances under which a monarch may refuse a request from a Prime Minister for the dissolution of Parliament. The Lascelles principles are that the monarch could refuse a dissolution if "the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job" or if the monarch "could rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons." A constitutional convention is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A prime minister may be either: chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the... In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ...


The Lascelles Principles are notable in that their formal statement was not incorporated in any governmental document, but rather were in the form of a letter in 1951 to the editor of The Times by Sir Alan Lascelles, writing under the pseudonym Senex. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles was a British civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the 20th century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II. Lascelles was born on 11 April 1887, the son of Commander Frederick... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ...


They have never been applied in the United Kingdom, since no monarch has refused a dissolution since then.


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Mackenzie King requested a dissolution of Parliament Lord Byng refused to dissolve Parliament The King-Byng Affair refers to a 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis that occurred when the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy, refused a request by the Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to...

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The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom describing the circumstances under which a monarch may refuse a request from a Prime Minister for the dissolution of Parliament.
The Lascelles principles are that the monarch could refuse a dissolution if "the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job" or if the monarch "could rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons."
The Lascelles Principles are notable in that their formal statement was not incorporated in any governmental document, but rather were in the form of a letter in 1951 to the editor of The Times by Sir Alan Lascelles, writing under the pseudonym Senex.
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