The role of the Jordanian Parliament and the government of Suleiman Al-Nabulsi in the abolition of the Jordanian-British Treaty of 1948

The main task of this research is to examine the role of the Fifth Jordanian Parliament (1956-1961) and the partisan government of Suleiman Al-Nabulsi (1956-1957) in the abolition of the Jordanian-British treaty signed in 1948. Through the identification of the local, regional and international political environment that contributed to the conditions for the cancellation of the treaty, the efforts and steps taken by the Government to achieve this parliamentary and national demand, the study of the positions of the parliamentary party blocs, the positions of independent deputies, the council's contribution to supporting the decision to cancel the treaty, in addition to the Government support for the completion of this popular demand, which appeared strongly in the election campaign in 1956, and monitoring and analyzing the views and parliamentary positions of the treaty that appeared in the Initiative of the Council to recommend to the Government to cancel the treaty at the beginning of the parliament session, and in the debates of the House of Representatives. For the ministerial statement of the government, specifically with regard to the treaty, and then in the discussions of the Council and its approval of the bill to cancel the treaty on March 13, 1957, and finally analyze the reasons for the early departure of the government less than a month after the signing of the agreement of cancellation and the ratification of the Fifth House of Representatives as a law.
The researcher relied on the minutes of the fifth Sessions of the Jordanian Parliament, which is preserved in the archives of the Jordanian Parliament, published in the annexes of the Official Gazette, as well as a large number of studies on the experience of the government of Suleiman Al-Nabulsi, a number of Jordanian newspapers, and references in both Arabic and English dealing with the affairs of this stage.