Definition of Parliament

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Parliament

A parleying; a discussion; a conference.

A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.

The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.

In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.

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Parliament Quotations

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
Dave Barry

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
Tommy Douglas

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Hassan Nasrallah

Parliament Translations

parliament in Dutch is parlement, volksvertegenwoordiging
parliament in French is parlement
parliament in German is Parlament
parliament in Italian is parlamento
parliament in Swedish is parlament, riksdag

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