parliamentary system

1. 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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