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legislative systems  

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  • The term legislative system refers to the institutional arrangement for enacting laws, centered usually on one or two deliberative assemblies that claim to represent the nation. Those bodies may be called the legislature to denote their lawmaking function, or the parliament to denote their deliberative character, or the assembly, congress, or diet to denote that they are organized as a meeting of one house or of two chambers constituting a bicameral assembly. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Legislative Systems]

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