Editing Privy Council (United Kingdom) (section)

==Other councils==

The Privy Council is one of the four principal councils of the sovereign. The other three are the [[History of the courts of England and Wales|courts of law]], the ''[[Commune Concilium]]'' (Common Council, i.e. Parliament) and the ''[[Magnum Concilium]]'' (Great Council, i.e. the assembly of all the [[peers of the realm]]). All are still in existence, or at least have never been formally abolished, but the ''Magnum Concilium'' has not been summoned since 1640 and was considered defunct even then.<ref name="cox-25"/><ref>Blackstone, I. Chapter 5.</ref>

Several other privy councils have advised the sovereign. England and Scotland once had separate privy councils (the [[Privy Council of England]] and [[Privy Council of Scotland]]). The [[Acts of Union 1707]] united the two countries into the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and in 1708 the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] abolished the Privy Council of Scotland and the Privy Council of England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Privy Council Records|url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/privy-council-records|publisher=National Records of Scotland|access-date=8 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109113425/https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/privy-council-records|archive-date=9 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Gorman|first1=Frank|title=The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688–1832|date=2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781472507747|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KpY-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816034002/https://books.google.com/books?id=KpY-CwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA65&pg=PA65|archive-date=16 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Thereafter there was one Privy Council of Great Britain sitting in London.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Black|first1=Jeremy|title=The politics of Britain, 1688–1800|date=1993|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=0719037611|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qX_W1O6XatwC&pg=PA13|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816034002/https://books.google.com/books?id=qX_W1O6XatwC&lpg=PA13&pg=PA13#v=onepage&f=false|archive-date=16 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], on the other hand, continued to have a separate Privy Council even after the [[Act of Union 1800]]. The last appointments to the [[Privy Council of Ireland]] were made in 1922, when [[Irish Free State|the greater part of Ireland]] separated from the United Kingdom as an independent [[Dominion]]. It was succeeded by the [[Privy Council of Northern Ireland]], which became dormant after the suspension of the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm|title=Privy Counsellors—Ireland|author=Rayment, Leigh|date=27 May 2014|access-date=13 February 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926113756/http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm|archive-date=26 September 2008}}</ref>

Canada has had its own Privy Council — the [[King's Privy Council for Canada]] — since 1867.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=description_e.htm |title=The Queen's Privy Council for Canada |publisher=Privy Council Office |date=13 February 2008 |access-date=3 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305063717/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=description_e.htm |archive-date=5 March 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While the Canadian Privy Council is specifically "for Canada", the Privy Council discussed above is not "for the United Kingdom"; to clarify the ambiguity where necessary, the latter was historically referred to as the Imperial Privy Council. Equivalent organs of state in other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand, are called [[Executive Council (Commonwealth countries)|Executive Councils]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/executive_handbook.pdf |publisher=Australian Government, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |title=Federal Executive Council Handbook |date=June 2005 |access-date=9 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720225659/http://www.pmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/executive_handbook.pdf |archive-date=20 July 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/cabinet/ministers/executive.html|publisher=New Zealand Government, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|title=Executive Council|access-date=9 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703220938/http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/cabinet/ministers/executive.html <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=3 July 2008}}</ref>