 Complete the following phrase:  Poynings Law 1495 gave the Irish Privy Council a leading role in the legislative process. Before the council summoned each new Parliament with a general election to the Commons it had to submit the Parliaments bills to the Privy Council of England for approval as causes and considerations for the summons. Initially all bills were by the Irish council, and the Commons and Lords could pass or reject, but not amend them. By the 18th century a legal fiction arose where Parliament debated heads of a bill and petitioned the council to introduce it; the council could still amend or reject these heads. Private bills were always initiated by the council until the 