Parliament | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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00:00:41 1 Etymology
00:01:14 2 Early parliaments
00:02:40 2.1 Iran
00:03:51 2.2 Spain
00:07:07 2.3 England
00:07:15 2.3.1 Early forms of assembly
00:09:14 2.3.2 iMagna Carta/i and the Model Parliament
00:10:50 2.3.3 Parliament under Henry VIII and Edward VI
00:13:39 2.3.4 Importance of the Commonwealth years
00:14:37 2.3.5 Acts of Union
00:14:56 2.4 Scotland
00:17:15 2.5 Nordic and Germanic countries
00:19:08 2.6 Italy
00:19:22 2.7 Switzerland
00:19:39 2.8 France
00:20:49 2.9 Poland
00:22:58 2.10 Ukraine
00:23:41 2.11 Russia
00:24:50 2.11.1 Novgorod and Pskov
00:26:03 2.12 Roman Catholic Church
00:26:42 3 Development of modern parliaments
00:27:05 3.1 Parliaments of the United Kingdom
00:30:53 3.2 Parliament of Sweden
00:31:27 4 Parliamentary system
00:33:18 5 List of national parliaments
00:33:27 5.1 Parliaments of the European Union
00:35:14 5.2 Others
00:37:25 6 List of subnational parliamentary governments
00:37:35 6.1 Australia
00:38:05 6.2 Belgium
00:39:31 6.3 Canada
00:40:14 6.4 Denmark
00:40:25 6.5 Finland
00:40:35 6.6 Germany
00:40:45 6.7 India
00:42:42 6.8 Malaysia
00:42:49 6.9 Netherlands
00:42:59 6.10 Norway
00:43:07 6.11 Spain
00:43:15 6.12 Switzerland
00:43:23 6.13 United Kingdom
00:43:37 7 Other parliaments
00:43:48 7.1 Contemporary supranational parliaments
00:44:06 7.2 Equivalent national legislatures
00:44:42 7.3 Defunct
00:45:18 8 See also



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In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries.The term is similar to the idea of a senate, synod or congress, and is commonly used in countries that are current or former monarchies, a form of government with a monarch as the head. Some contexts restrict the use of the word parliament to parliamentary systems, although it is also used to describe the legislature in some presidential systems (e.g. the French parliament), even where it is not in the official name.
Historically, parliaments included various kinds of deliberative, consultative, and judicial assemblies, e.g. medieval parlements.