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3 days ago · Nigel Farage (born April 3, 1964, London, England) is a British politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2020. He led the populist libertarian United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016. In 2019 he launched the Brexit Party.
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3 days ago · legislature, lawmaking branch of a government. Before the advent of legislatures, the law was dictated by monarchs. Early European legislatures include the English Parliament and the Icelandic Althing (founded c. 930). Legislatures may be unicameral or bicameral (see bicameral system).
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16 hours ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized : dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. [2] Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive ...
1 day ago · The United States is a constitutional federal republic, in which the president (the head of state and head of government ), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. The federal government is divided into three branches, as per the specific ...
2 days ago · A cabinet, in political systems, is a body of advisers to a head of state who also serve as the heads of government departments. The cabinet has become an important element of government wherever legislative powers have been vested in a parliament, but its form differs markedly in various countries.
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2 days ago · Parliament (from old French, parler, "to talk") is the UK's highest law-making body. Although the British constitution is not codified, the Supreme Court recognises constitutional principles, [11] and constitutional statutes, [12] which shape the use of political power.
4 days ago · Functions and Procedures of Parliament. Parliament in a parliamentary form of government is a multifunctional organ of the state, but its functions are rarely defined in any Constitution or other document anywhere in the world. One has to read in between the lines of a Constitution to locate the specific functions of Parliament, if there exists ...
