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| | William Lyon Mackenzie King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | King had been considered a minor player in the war by both United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec City in 1943. | | | King did ask whether his party would win the 1935 election, one of the few times politics came up during his seances. | | | King appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: |
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| | King-Byng Affair |
| | King resigned, and Conservative leader Arthur MEIGHEN was asked to form a government and did. | | | Byng granted Meighen a dissolution, and King won the ensuing election. | | | The new government won 4 critical votes, including one of censure of the King government, but was defeated on a fifth. |
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| | King-Byng Affair |
| | The King-Byng Affair was a political crisis in 1926 involving Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Governor General Viscount Byng. | | | In the ensuing election, in which Byng's actions were an important issue, King returned to power with a majority of seats in Parliament. | | | King angrily resigned and Conservative leader Arthus Meighen took over as prime minister. |
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| | Canadian Federal Election, 1926 Exercise @ IntAdopt.com (International Adoption) |
| | Byng returned to Britain at the end of the year and was raised to the rank of Viscount as an expression of confidence in him. | | | Mackenzie King effectively campaigned against Byng in the election instead of against Meighen, and won the largest number of seats in the House of Commons despite receiving a smaller proportion of the popular vote than the Tories. | | | Meighen's government was soon defeated in a vote of no confidence, and Byng agreed to dissolve Parliament and call new elections. |
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| | Wikipedia: Arthur Meighen |
| | His party won a plurality of seats in the inconclusive election of 1925, though King was able to cling to power until 1926. | | | Meighen was invited to form a government by Lord Byng, the Governor General, as part of the "King-Byng affair" (see the article on Lord Byng). | | | Meighen lost of the 1921 election to William Lyon Mackenzie King. |
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| | Canada in the Making - Glossary |
| | King, who had held onto power since the 1925 election by forging unions with other political parties in power, was angered by this move, and resigned before his power could be taken away. | | | However, a mere four days after Meighen was sworn in as prime minister, his new Tory government accidentally lost a vote of confidence. | | | Meighen lost the election three months later due to public dissatisfaction with Byng's involvement in the political crisis, and resigned as party leader not long after. |
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| | Constitutional crisis |
| | The King-Byng Affair of 1926 in Canada where Governor General Byng refused a request by Prime Minister Mackenzie King that Parliament be dissolved and new elections called. | | | The Watergate scandal of 1973-74 in the United States, in which President Richard Nixon refused to relinquish secret recordings of conversations in the Oval Office which were believed to have demonstrated his knowledge and involvement in the affair. | | | The secession of the southern US states prior to the American Civil War. |
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| | CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties |
| | King campaigned on the constitutional issue of the Governor General refusing to accept his earlier request for dissolution, and won the election. | | | Lord Byng asking him to dissolve Parliament so that the country could go to an election. | | | Result: Mackenzie King leaned heavily on support from the Progressives to complete his term. |
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| | 'The evil men do lives after them' [Free Republic] |
| | King persuaded the people that the Goveror General had acted improperly and that the Conservatives had no right to govern. | | | He concerned himself with public affairs during the 55 years spanning 1942 and 1997, first as a student and journalist, then as a politician and national leader, and finally as an elder statesman. | | | Meighan having lost the confidence of the House, the governor General then dropped the writ. |
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| | King, William Lyon Mackenzie - Columbia Encyclopedia article about King, William Lyon Mackenzie |
| | Chosen in 1919 to succeed Laurier as leader of the Liberal party, Mackenzie King led the opposition in Parliament until 1921, when he became prime minister, a post he filled, except for a brief interval in 1926, until 1930. | | | In 1940 he concluded with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Ogdensburg Agreement and in 1941, the Hyde Park Declaration; by these Canada and the United States agreed to create a permanent joint board of defense and to cooperate in the production of defense materials. | | | With President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Great Britain, he signed in 1945 the Washington declaration on atomic energy. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Canada's Governor General |
| | Mackenzie King soon returned to power with a majority government, but the "King-Byng Affair" led to reforms of the governor general's role in Canada and throughout the dominions. | | | When Byng turned him down, Mackenzie King resigned and the Governor General invited Conservative Arthur Meighen to form a government. | | | The lieutenant-governors of the provinces once represented the governor general, but now act as direct representatives of the Queen. |
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| | ZoomInfo Web Summary: Rodolphe Lemieux |
| | On June 30, 1930, King appointed Lemieux to the Canadian Senate where he served until his death in 1937. | | | When Mackenzie King led the Liberals back to power in the 1921 Canadian election he chose Ernest Lapointe as his Quebec lieutenant rather than Lemieux. | | | Laurier sent the Minister of Labour, Rodolphe Lemieux and his deputy minister, William Lyon MacKenzie King to investigate. |
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| | The Monarchist: The King-Byng Affair |
| | King not to put the Governor General in the position of having to make a controversial decision. | | | The election of 1925 (2005) did not give McKenzie King (Paul Martin) the result he was after. | | | Owe allegiance to our gracious Queen - Elizabeth II and with the consent of the Nation States of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica… the overall Monarch of the Independent Nation States of the United Kingdoms of the Commonwealth. |
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| | But the vice-Regal, Lord Byng refused to grant an election. | | | After the 1926 election, William Lyon Mackenzie King won a plurality of seats but didn’t win a majortiy. | | | No elections were held until Meighan lost a confidence motion not long after. |
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| | Articles - Canada |
| | The King´´ (1925), a major provocation to Canada and cause of the discussions which led to the Balfour Declaration; ultimately, all JCPC appeals were abolished in 1949. | | | At that time, the vast area outside of the seven provinces constituted the Northwest Territories, but over the years most of it would be transferred to three existing provinces, two new ones (Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905), and two additional territories (Yukon, 1898; Nunavut, 1999). | | | The power to amend Canada´s constitution remained with the British parliament, although subject to the Statute of Westminster, until it was "patriated" to Canadian control by the Canada Act 1982 (which includes the 1867 act and contemporaneous act). |
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| | andrewcoyne.com |
| | What we have here is a Prime Minister refusing to accept a defeat in the House as requiring his resignation. | | | King asked Byng to dissolve Parliament, but was refused. | | | Clarkson, on the other hand, may have to dissolve Parliament over Martin's objections. |
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| | king: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | One that is supreme or preeminent in a particular group, category, or sphere. | | | In algebraic notation, the white king starts on e1 and the black king on e8. | | | In a conventional game of chess, White starts with the king in the middle-right of their first rank (between the queen and the king-side bishop). |
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| | King-byng Affair |
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| | Middle East Open Encyclopedia: King-Byng Affair |
| | Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, King-Byng Affair; all previous versions may be viewed here. | | | They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article. |
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