parliaments
Elected legislative bodies
Parliaments is the plural of parliament, a legislative body that makes laws and oversees government.
The word typically refers to multiple such assemblies across different countries or to successive sessions within one nation: Several European parliaments debated the treaty.
In Britain, each parliament lasts until dissolution and new elections: Three parliaments have considered the issue.
Formal argument on issues
- billAmount owed, written
- motionChange in position
- voteFormal choice expression
- quorumMinimum for valid proceedings
filibuster · amendment · reading · committee · speaker · whip · recess · prorogation
Lawmaking governmental branch
- assemblyConstructing from components
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
- senateLegislative governing body
- lawmakingCrafting enforceable rules
representatives · MPs · elected · democracy · session · dissolution · sovereignty · Westminster
debate
Formal argument on issues
quorum · filibuster · amendment · reading · committee · speaker · whip · recess · prorogation · adjournment
legislature
Lawmaking governmental branch
lawmaking · representatives · MPs · elected · democracy · session · dissolution · sovereignty · Westminster · Bundestag
Westminster
London's political center
- CapitolLegislative assembly building
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
gallery · benches · dispatch box · mace · rotunda · dome · statehouse · palace · precinct · visitors
collective noun
Term for grouped entities
gathering · roosting · barn owls · wisdom · nocturnal · perching · colony
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, ballot
- Medieval Europekings, queens, knights, castles, castle
- medieval societyserfs, noble lineage, peasants, serf, heir
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- authoritiesrulers, ruler, leaders, leader, officials
- Western valuesindividualism, free market, private property, rule of law, civil liberties
parliamentsdictatorships
Regimes under absolute rulers
autocracies · tyrannies · despotisms · absolute monarchies · totalitarian regimes
- federal parliamentCentral government's legislative branch
- parliamentary systemsGovernance requiring legislative confidence
- British ParliamentUK's national legislature
- Houses of ParliamentUK's legislative seat
- parliamentary seatsElected legislative positions
- member of parliamentElected legislative officeholder
parliament, parliamentary, parliamentarian, parliamentarians