Rural Tenn (31 replies). Latest news from Sweetwater, TN collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: United States (22.3%), German (18.2%), Irish (13.3%), English (8.7%), Scotch-Irish (4.8%), Dutch (1.7%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Land area: 6.90 square miles.
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which, like the House of Lords (the upper house), meets in the Palace of Westminster. The House is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs).
The Act of Union 1707 merged the English Parliament with the Parliament of Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. When the Parliament of Ireland was abolished in 1801, its former members were merged into what was now called the Parliament of the United Kingdom.