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The Lascelles Principles was a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom between 1950 and 2011, under which the Sovereign could refuse a request from the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament if three conditions are met: #if the existing Parliament was still "vital, viable, and capable of doing its job", #if a General Election would be "detrimental to the national economy" (), #if the Sovereign could "rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons." The convention was rendered irrelevant in 2011, when the Sovereign's power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. == The letter == During public discussion in 1950 of the King's potential response to the slim majority of the newly re-elected Labour Party, the Lascelles Principles were formally stated in a letter by Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI, under the pseudonym "Senex" to the Editor of ''The Times'', published 2 May 1950:
Thus, the letter asserted the constitutional power of the Sovereign to deny a dissolution, described the conditions for a valid exercise of that power, and referenced precedents when requests for parliamentary dissolution not exhibiting these conditions were refused by Governors-General of British Commonwealth countries, who represent the Sovereign. English historian Peter Hennessy stated in 1994 that the second of the three conditions had since been "dropped from the canon", being no longer included in internal Cabinet Office guidance.〔''The Economist'', 24 December 1994, page 32 (cited in ''(British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials )'', Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins, 2007, page 364, ISBN 978-0-521-69029-4)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lascelles Principles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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