Re: OT: For information only !
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 19, 2004, 20:23 |
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In a message dated 6/19/04 12:53:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, joe@WANTAGE.COM
writes:
<< The US is the
only state that (to my knowledge) claims to have a 'Congress' rather
than a Parliament. >>
Actually, Mexico has a congress, and I believe the same is true of some other
Latin American nations. The historical reason being, as my encyclopedia puts
it, that the
Mexican constitution was "closely modeled on that of the US."
John Leland