The House of Commons is the part of parliament in Britain or Canada whose members are elected. The building where they meet is also called the House of Commons. The House of Commons has overwhelmingly rejected demands to bring back the death penalty for murder. The lower house of Parliament in the United Kingdom and Canada. the House of Commons the part of the British or Canadian parliament whose members are elected by the people. Popularly elected lower house of the bicameral British Parliament. Because it alone has the power to levy taxes and allocate expenditures, it is Britain's chief legislative authority. It originated in the late 13th century, when landholders and other property owners began sending representatives to Parliament to present grievances and petitions to the king and to accept commitments to the payment of taxes. It was the less powerful house until 1911, when the Reform Bill of that year gave it the power to override the House of Lords. The party with the greatest representation in the Commons forms the government, and the prime minister chooses the cabinet from the party's members. In the early 21st century there were 659 members, elected from single-member districts. See also Canadian Parliament; parliamentary democracy
-the major lawmaking place in the country, located in Ottawa In each of the Canada's 301 ridings, the candidate who gets the most of votes is elected to the House of Commons as an MP The MPs gather in the House of Commons to debate, discuss and vote on government questions and issues
This is where Members of Parliament work in order to make decisions about the running of the country They discuss different issues (Bills) and try to decide which ones to make law After they have discussed it the Bill is passed to the House of Lords
The place - known as the chamber - in London where elected Members of Parliament go to debate important matters, make decisions and check up on the government
The commons refers to England's communal lands where individually owned livestock grazed In what author Garrett Hardin called the tragedy of the commons, each individual owner increased the number of his cattle, knowing that he would gain but that the environmental cost would be shared by all As a result the commons was destroyed The underlying lesson in the tragedy of the commons is the importance of caring for both public and private resources, and the knowledge that the sole pursuit of individual benefits can mean disaster for all
The Commons project is a good place to look for code if you don't want to reinvent the wheel It contains collection classes, web utilities, XPath helpers, data validators, testing tools, XML mappers, and more One particularly interesting sandbox subproject of Commons is Jelly, a scripting language based on XML that supports features of JSP, JSTL, Velocity, and Ant It is used by Maven as a powerful front end to Ant
"The global commons": Those resources we all have to use to survive but which we do not have to pay for The term is based on the idea of the village commons: a plot of land owned by no one where all had the right to graze their stock Because its use was without cost, people overused it, not respecting its fragility or limits or expending any effort or resources to preserve it The inevitable result was the destruction of the commons By application, the "global commons" are threatened with overuse precisely because we do not figure in a cost for them There is a cost, of course, that we are paying all the time, in the diminution or damaging of the commons
The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information
a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
To put one on short commons To stint him, to give him scanty meals In the University of Cambridge the food provided for each student at breakfast is called his commons; hence food in general or meals To come into commons To enter a society in which the members have a common or general dinner table
Provisions; food; fare, as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities
The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people
The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities
A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons
{i} dining room, cafeteria; food provided in a dining room; ration, portion, food ration; open public area in a city or town, park, square