rubber stamp parliament
Powerless approval body
A rubber stamp parliament is a legislative body that exists in form but not in function, automatically approving decisions made elsewhere—typically by an executive, ruling party, or dictator.
The term evokes a clerk mechanically stamping documents without reading them.
Critics dismissed the assembly as a rubber stamp parliament for the president's policies.
Such bodies provide a veneer of democratic legitimacy while exercising no real oversight or opposition.
- puppetControlled performing figure
- yes menServile, agreeable subordinates
- autocracyRule by one
- shamFraudulent imitation
- show trialPredetermined judicial spectacle
facade · window dressing · dictator · supreme leader · legislature · oligarchy · ceremonial · authoritarian · iron fist · token · figurehead · nominal · subservient · one-party · single party · party line · Duma · Politburo
- authoritarianismautocracy, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism
- Communist StatesUSSR, Soviet Union, East Germany, GDR, DDR
rubber stamp parliamentlegislative oversight
Lawmakers reviewing executive conduct
filibuster · checks and balances · separation of powers · divided government · vote of no confidence
rubber stamp parliamentrepresentative democracy
Governance through chosen delegates
open debate · US Congress · direct democracy · participatory democracy
rubber stamp parliamentrepresentative democracy
Governance through chosen delegates
popular sovereignty · constitutional democracy · liberal democracy · open society · civic participation
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