Proceeding contribution from Mark Lazarowicz (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 July 2010. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Act of Settlement.
Act of Settlement
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for raising something that is not only offensive to Roman Catholics and people of many other faiths, but offensive to anyone who wants equality under the law in our constitution in all respects. He will know that one of the arguments made against taking any such measure forward with urgency is that it would require agreement among all the countries of which the monarch is the Head of State. If by some chance we were to amend the legislation here in the UK, but Tuvalu, Belize, or St Vincent and the Grenadines, for example, inspired by some form of anti-Catholicism, did not change their constitutions, so that we ended up with a different monarch in the UK from those countries, would that really be a particularly worrying matter?
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- 512 c1106-7
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- 2010-12
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- Church of England Catholicism Church and state Monarchy Succession Roman Catholic Church
- Legislation
- Coronation Oath Act 1688
- Royal Marriages Act 1772
- Act of Settlement 1700
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