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- Octennial_Act abstract "The Octennial Act (7 George III c.3; long title An act for limiting the duration of parliaments) was a 1768 act of the Parliament of Ireland which set a maximum duration of eight years for the Irish House of Commons. Before this, a dissolution of parliament was not required except on the demise of the Crown, and the previous three general elections were held in 1715, 1727, and 1761, on the respective deaths of Anne, George I, and George II. After the act, general elections were held in 1769, 76, 83, 90, and 98.Limiting the duration of parliament was a prime objective of the Patriot Party. Heads of bills were brought, by Charles Lucas in 1761 and 1763 and by Henry Flood in 1765, to limit parliament to seven years as the Septennial Act 1716 did for the Parliament of Great Britain. The heads were rejected by the Privy Council of Great Britain, which, under Poynings' Law, had to pre-approve any bill before it was formally introduced in the Irish parliament. Since the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the British government had wished to increase the size of Irish regiments, the part of the British Army charged on the Irish exchequer rather than the British. In 1767, the Chatham Ministry appointed George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and instructed him to secure the support of the Irish parliament for an Augmentation Bill to effect this increase. The British considered several possible concessions to win over the Patriot Party, and at his speech from the throne, Townshend promised judicial tenure quamdiu se bene gesserint (on the model of the Act of Settlement 1701) and hinted at a Septennial Act. Lucas again introduced heads of a Septennial Bill on 20 October 1767; Barry Maxwell introduced heads of a judicial tenure bill the same day. In November, the appointment of James Hewitt, 1st Baron Lifford as Lord Chancellor of Ireland alienated the Undertakers who had hoped for the post. In addition, the British Privy Council added a \"wrecking clause\" to the judicial tenure bill, which caused the Irish parliament to reject the bill once returned to Dublin. The council also made three amendments to Lucas' bill: to the preamble, to extend the limit from seven to eight years (thus an Octennial Bill) and to bring forward the date of the next general election from 1774 to 1768. According to Francis Plowden, the Privy Council insisted on the modification to eight years in the expectation that the Irish parliament would reject the bill on principle once any amendment had been made to it, and was disappointed when its amended bill was passed. W. E. H. Lecky calls this \"without foundation\", stating the actual reasons for eight years were that the Irish Parliament only met every second year, and to reduce the chance of Irish and British general elections coinciding.The Octennial Act reinvigorated the Commons, both with newly elected reformers and with MPs made more active by the prospect of imminent re-election. Changes included more assertiveness over supply bills and Poynings' Law, easing the penal laws, and securing the Constitution of 1782. There were unsuccessful attempts to shorten the maximum duration, in 1773 by Sir William Parsons and in 1777 by Sir Edward Newenham.".
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- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Act_of_Parliament.
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- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Augmentation_Bill.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Barry_Maxwell,_1st_Earl_of_Farnham.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Bill_(law).
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink British_Army.
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- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Lucas_(politician).
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Chatham_Ministry.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Constitution_of_1782.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Demise_of_the_Crown.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Dissolution_of_parliament.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Newenham.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Plowden_(barrister).
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink General_election.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink George_II_of_Great_Britain.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink George_I_of_Great_Britain.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink George_Townshend,_1st_Marquess_Townshend.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Flood.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Ireland_(1691–1801).
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Irish_House_of_Commons.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Irish_Patriot_Party.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Irish_military_diaspora.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink James_Hewitt,_1st_Viscount_Lifford.
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- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Long_title.
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- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Money_bill.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Parliament_of_Great_Britain.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Parliament_of_Ireland.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Penal_Laws_(Ireland).
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Poynings_Law.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Preamble.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Queens_University_Belfast.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Septennial_Act_1716.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Seven_Years_War.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Sir_William_Parsons,_4th_Baronet.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink Speech_from_the_throne.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLink William_Edward_Hartpole_Lecky.
- Octennial_Act wikiPageWikiLinkText "Octennial Act".
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- Octennial_Act subject Category:1768_in_Ireland.
- Octennial_Act subject Category:Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Ireland_(pre-1801).
- Octennial_Act subject Category:Election_legislation.
- Octennial_Act subject Category:General_elections_in_Ireland.
- Octennial_Act hypernym Act.
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- Octennial_Act comment "The Octennial Act (7 George III c.3; long title An act for limiting the duration of parliaments) was a 1768 act of the Parliament of Ireland which set a maximum duration of eight years for the Irish House of Commons. Before this, a dissolution of parliament was not required except on the demise of the Crown, and the previous three general elections were held in 1715, 1727, and 1761, on the respective deaths of Anne, George I, and George II.".
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