Thursday, March 25, 2010


A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlemet, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place. It acquired its modern meaning as it came to be used for the body of people (in an institutional sense) who would meet to discuss matters of state.

India

Ancient Indian, Vedic texts mention of two Parliament-like gatherings of the Indo-Aryan kingdoms called the Sabhā and the Samiti. During the time of theBuddha, many states were forms of republics, called the Sanghas. The Sabha has been interpreted by the historians as a representative assembly of the elect—the im portant men of the clan, which ran day-to-day business with the king. The Samiti seems to be a gathering of all the male members of the kingdom, and probably convened only for the ratification/election of a new king. The two largely democratic institutions, which kept a check on the absolutism of the king, were given a sacred position, and have been called the daughters of the deity Prajapati in the Vedas, the holiest of all Hindu scriptures and the earliest Indo-European literature. However, these democratic institutions became weaker as republics became larger and elected chieftainship moved towards hereditary and absolute monarchy. The Sabha and the Samiti bear almost no mention in later literature. After this, India would not have any democratic legislature till the British times with such bodies as the Central Legislative Assembly, a step in the direction of the modern democratic Parliament of India, the two Houses of which still bear the ancient name of Sabha.

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Sansad Bhavan, the Parliament of India building, is located in Delhi

Countries Name of Parliament

Afghanistan

Shora

Bangladesh

Jatiya Sangsad

Bhutan

Tsongdu

Bulgaria

Narodna Subranie

Myanmar (Burma)

Pyithu Hluttaw

Denmark

 Folketing

Ethiopia

 Shergo

Finland

Eduskusta

Germany

Bundestag (Lower House)

Bundestrat (Upper House)

Greenland

Landstraad

Iceland

Althing

India

Lok Sabha (Lower House)

Rajya Sabha (Upper House)

Indonesia

Majlis

IranÂ

Majlis

Israel

Knesser

Japan

Diet

Malaysia

Dewan Rakyat and Dewan, Negara

MaldivesÂ

Majlis

Mongolia

Great People’s Khural

Nepal

National Panchayat

The Netherlands

The Staten General

Norway

Storting

Poland

Sejm

SpainÂ

Cortes

SurinamÂ

 Staten

SwazilandÂ

Liblandla

Sweden

Riksdaq

Swizerland

Federal Assembly




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