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1. Motion of no confidence (Wikipedia)
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The first motion of no confidence against an entire government occurred in March 1782 when, following news of the British defeat at Yorktown in the American Revolutionary War the previous October, the Parliament of Great Britain voted that it 'can no longer repose confidence in the present ministers'.
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