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parliament
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[ noun ] (politics) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)
Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win , the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant - in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes , in mob uprisings in the streets , in parliaments , in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators , at the United_Nations , on the propaganda front , at diplomatic conferences - preferably at the highest level . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament - the elected representatives - at the expense of the more conservative judiciary . |
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