Word: parliament
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...anti-American protests in Panama. Anytime that a country as powerful as the United States attacks a small country like Panama, it receives a rebuff not only from Latin American people but also from Americans with good sense. We are a real democracy. Our parliament is composed of blacks, Indians, whites and mixed races. This is Panama. You have to live here to understand it and not to slander...
...member Supreme Soviet, the country's largely ceremonial parliament, met last week to endorse the sweeping economic and political reforms approved a few days earlier by the Communist Party Central Committee, Moscow's intelligentsia was buoyant over another Mikhail Gorbachev initiative: a Marxist propaganda specialist, who has been known to make virulent attacks on the U.S., was promoted to the ruling Politburo. Normally that would cause groans among the intellectual elite, not cheers. But this propagandist is Alexander Yakovlev, and his promotion during the Central Committee meeting to full membership in the Politburo is being widely interpreted as a victory...
Italians, with memories of Mussolini still fresh in their minds, went even further than the Germans in reining in the executive branch. While this has guarded against a new outbreak of tyranny, the inability of any one of Italy's parties to win a majority in parliament has led to frequent political turnover: Italy has had 46 governments since...
Moreover, the parliamentary idea might dramatically shift the ballast and introduce considerable instability. Even in the stable British system, governments can be voted out of office by Parliament. Would Americans in the midst of a crisis -- the Iran-contra scandal, for example -- wish to subject the Administration to no-confidence votes...
...regular spectacle of legislative deadlock has given life to a venerable critique of American Government that favors some of the mechanisms and party discipline of parliamentary rule. Under such a system, the winning party's leader becomes Prime Minister and thus almost always commands a majority in Parliament to support his programs. Recently a five-year-old citizens' group called the Committee on the Constitutional System, headed by Washington Lawyer Lloyd Cutler, former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, has been pressing for revisions in that spirit. "In the parliamentary systems of Western Europe...