15 sentences with 'parliament'

• « The parliament is made up of 350 seats. »

• « The parliament approved the new education law. »

• « The deputies met in parliament to discuss the budget. »

• « In parliament, national interest issues are discussed. »

• « The local parliament renounced its allegiance to the Catholic emperor and pledged to support a Protestant prince in his place. »

• « The British parliament also became increasingly familiar with financial matters, and numerous debates arose over the best and most cost-effective use of state funds. »

• « One such institution was the English parliament, which strongly asserted its control over taxation, a role played in France by several different parliaments scattered throughout the kingdom. »

• « In turn, the stability of government depended on cooperation between the Crown and the House of Commons, the larger of the two legal bodies of parliament, which was populated by members of the nobility. »

• « The Church of England was the nominal church of the whole realm, and only Anglicans could hold public office as judges or members of the British parliament, a legislative body dominated by the landed gentry. »

• « Many Enlightenment thinkers thus looked to Britain, since 1689 ruled by a monarch who agreed with its written constitution and worked closely with an elected parliament, as the best existing model of enlightened government. »

• « In 1651, both in an attempt to wrest trade from the Dutch and to defend itself against Britain's traditional enemies, France and Spain, parliament passed the English Navigation Acts, which reserved trade with the English colonies to English ships. »

• « James I was already King of Scotland when he inherited the English crown, so England and Scotland were politically united and the kingdom of "Great Britain" was born (later ratified as a permanent legal reality in 1707 with the "Act of Union" passed by parliament). »

• « The Bohemian Diet, the local parliament of nobles, refused and threw the two officials out of the window of the building in which they were meeting; this event became known as the Prague Defenestration ("defenestration" literally means "throwing out of the window"). »

• « The Holy Roman Empire had a parliament, the Imperial Diet, where representatives of the member states, free cities, kingdoms, duchies and church lands met to petition the emperor and discuss the political issues of the day. In practice, the Diet had little impact on the laws of the constituent states of the empire. »

• « With the exception of the constitutional monarchy and the strong parliament of Britain, the monarchs of the major states of Europe managed in the eighteenth century to control governments that were at least "absolutist" in their pretensions, although the nobility and local assemblies had much real power almost everywhere. »

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