Committee of Safety

(noun)

A committee established by the Parliamentarians in July 1642. It was the first of a number of successive committees set up to oversee the English Civil War against King Charles I and the Interregnum. Its last installment was set up in 1659, just before the Restoration, in response to the Rump Parliament, which the day before tried to place the commander of the army Charles Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.

Related Terms

Examples of Committee of Safety in the following topics:

  • Restoration of the Stuarts

    • On May 7, a Committee of Safety was formed on the authority of the Rump Parliament, displacing the Protector's Council of State, and was in turn replaced by a new Council of State on May 19.
    • Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State, and one of the seven commissioners for the army.
    • On October 26, a Committee of Safety was appointed, of which Fleetwood and Lambert were members.
    • The Committee of Safety sent Lambert with a large force to meet George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to come to terms.
    • Charles II of England by Peter Lely, 1675, Collection of Euston Hall, Suffolk

  • Robespierre and the Committee on Pubic Safety

  • The Committee System

    • Committee membership enables members to develop specialized knowledge of the matters under their jurisdiction.
    • Since 1761, the growing autonomy of committees has fragmented the power of each congressional chamber as a unit.
    • With the growing responsibilities of the Senate, the committees gradually grew to be the key policy-making bodies of the Senate, instead of merely technical aids to the chamber.
    • By 1906, the Senate maintained 66 standing and select committees—eight more committees than members of the majority party.
    • The House relied primarily on the Committee of the Whole to handle the bulk of legislative issues.

  • The Staff System

    • Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
    • Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
    • Each congressional committee has a staff of varying size.
    • Majority and minority members hire their own staff, with the exception of two committees in each house: the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House, and the Select Committee on Ethics and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate.
    • In 2000, House committees had an average of 68 staff, and Senate committees an average of 46.

  • Committees

    • Committees draw together people of relevant expertise from various parts of an organization and are often responsible for making decisions.
    • Where there is a large committee, it is common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions - for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an (ongoing) audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc.
    • Where there is a large committee, it is common to have smaller committees with more specialized functions—for example, Boards of Directors of large corporations typically have an (ongoing) audit committee, finance committee, compensation committee, etc.
    • A committee that is a subset of a larger committee is called a subcommittee.
    • Committees are a necessary aspect of organizations of any significant size (say, more than 15 or 20 people).

  • Occupational Health and Safety

    • Occupational safety and health (OSH) is an interdisciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health, and welfare of people engaged in work.
    • The goal of occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe and healthy work environment.
    • Development of work organizations and cultures that support health and safety at the workplace
    • The basic premise behind these interactions is ensuring the health and safety of all employees.
    • Department of Labor, is responsible for developing and enforcing workplace safety and health regulations.

  • Do What to Make Friends?

    • I've painted a bleak and humorless picture of committees.
    • The quality of the decision made by a committee is a direct function of the average intelligence present for the committee meeting.
    • The accomplishments of a committee are inversely related to the duration of a committee meeting.
    • The accomplishments of a committee are inversely related to the number of times it meets.
    • The aggregate intelligence of any committee for a meeting cannot be higher than the aggregate intelligence that remained at the end of the last meeting of the committee.

  • Congressional Campaign Committees

    • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.
    • The structure of the committee consists, essentially, of the Chairperson, their staff, and other Democratic members of Congress that serve in roles supporting the functions of the committee.
    • Of the four congressional campaign committees, the DCCC, with a staff of 25, has the largest in-house research department.
    • The position of DCCC committee chair was assumed by Rahm Emanuel after the death of the previous chair, Bob Matsui at the end of the 2004 election cycle.
    • Pete Sessions (TX-32) , and an executive committee composed of Republican members of the U.S.

  • Conference Committee

    • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
    • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House of Representatives and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
    • The conference committee is usually composed of the senior members of the standing committees of each house that originally considered the legislation.
    • The conference committee produces a conference report melding the work of the House and Senate into a final version of the bill.
    • Explain the function of the conference committee in the legislative process

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) establishes guidelines to maintain viral family uniformity.
    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is a committee which authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of viruses.
    • Members of the committee are considered to be world experts on viruses.
    • The committee formed from and is governed by the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies.
    • Describe the purpose and objectives of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses