Parliament
A parliament is a legislature whose power and function are similar to those dictated by the Westminster system of the United Kingdom. More generally, "parliament" may simply refer to a democratic government's legislature. The term is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place. It acquired its modern meaning as it came to be used for the body of people (in an institutional sense) who would meet to discuss matters of state.
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... Parliament of Ireland (1297–1801) Parliament of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) People's Parliament (1940s) Silesian Parliament (1922–1945) Parliament of Northern Ireland (1921–1973) Batasang Pambansa (1978 ...
... The 24th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand ... The 24th Parliament was extended by one year because the 1935 election was held later than anticipated due to the ongoing depression, similarly the 1919, and the 1943 elections were held two years late, having been ... The Prime Minister during the 24th Parliament was George Forbes, leader of the United Party ...
... Parliament had voted to raise an army to counter the Royalist one Charles was leading but it was collectively unsure about how to conduct it ... according to such Instructions, as he shall, from Time to Time, receive from both Houses of Parliament," which was inevitably going to be a constraint on his ... This was a symbolic declaration of war against Parliament ...
... with the emerging presbyterian faction in Parliament ... However this plan failed when Parliament disbanded Massey’s army in October 1646 ... not only weakened the presbyterian faction in Parliament, it also began the decline of the influence of the nobles who supported the Parliamentary cause ...
... The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament ... had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries ... and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that both political establishments came to support the idea, albeit for different reasons ...
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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“A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”
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