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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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The supreme legislative power of the British Empire is vested in Parliament. Parliament is summoned by the writ of the sovereign issued out of Chancery, by advice of the Privy Council, at least twenty days previous to its assembling.

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John Scott Keltie LL.D. (Formerly Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Scotland, Paris, Marseilles, Petrograd, Rome, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Neuchatel, Philadelphia, and of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris)M. Epstein M.A., Ph.D. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical, of the Royal Statistical, and of the Royal Economic Societies)

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© 1921 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (1921). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270503_1

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