Re: OT: For information only !

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> I think the difference is largely historic.  Parliaments were created by
> already-established governments, generally monarchies, whereas
> congresses were created by states coming together, either permanently,
> as in the case of the US Congress, or temporarily, as in teh Congress of
> Vienna.
I take the difference to be in whether there is a separate executive
branch.  Parliamentary systems choose the executive; congressional
systems don't.  ("Executive" here excludes any purely figurehead
head-of-state.)

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[R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before
Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do
with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among
the orthodox -- thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite
undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness.  --T. H. Huxley

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