parliamentary system

A system of government in which the power to make and execute laws is held by a parliament . Britain has a parliamentary system of government, one of the oldest in the world. The United States does not; its legislature, the Congress , passes the laws, and a separate part of government, the executive branch , carries them out.

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And if you look at Britain in comparison: it had a parliamentary system at that time.

But despite the pain, Britain and its ancient parliamentary system dealt rather well with the dislocations caused by the war.

From the start, we were not a parliamentary system, in which loyalty to the party is paramount and demanded.

The country had a vibrant parliamentary system, an educated urban middle class, and a lively press that all but defied censorship.

Thailand is a unique society in the modern world: a Theravada Buddhist monarchy with a parliamentary system.

Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.

It cannot observe the rules of the Parliamentary system quite regularly yet.

Of course at home our wretched parliamentary system would make it inadvisable to have them executed.

We cannot under a Parliamentary system of government go behind the result of an election.

Nominally, the parliamentary system is in vogue, but at best it operates only indifferently.

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