parliament
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The draft bill would be introduced into parliament if the Scottish government secured approval from the UK government.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In addition, Prime Minister Andy Burnham will face his first Prime Minister’s Questions session in parliament on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Robles told parliament that agents of the CNI intelligence service had shared information about a possible imminent migrant crossing with security forces shortly before it happened, but Grande-Marlaska appeared to contradict her.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In early July, high schools had been instructed to prepare for the measure's implementation in September, ahead of its adoption by parliament later that month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all op-ponents of apartheid.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
In next week's elections, voters in Scotland and Wales will go to the polls to elect representatives in the national parliaments, while voters in England will elect councillors in around 5,000 local authority seats.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The forums were parliaments of the people, not unlike the meetings of chiefs at the Great Place that I witnessed as a boy.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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