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parliamentary
has definitions from the field of politics
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[ adjective ] relating to or having the nature of a parliament
Examples "parliamentary reform" "a parliamentary body" Used in print (The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)For , if so , the path leads through a complex process of parliamentary diplomacy which adds still another dimension to the problem . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit - when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands - two purposes were served : Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will , and law became a rational system for implementing that will , for serving conscious goals , for embodying the `` public policy '' . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (politics) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament
Examples "parliamentary government" Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)However , the sovereign was not Hobbes ' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (politics) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly
Examples "parliamentary law" Related terms |
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