Re: OT: For information only !

John Cowan wrote:

>Nik Taylor scripsit:
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>>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.
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>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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>John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
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Then there are mixed systems like the one here in Peru. It is unicameral
with an executive head of
state. Sometimes members of the executive are also members of the
congress. The current Prime
Minister is a member, the previous one wasn't.  The first Vice President
(who had to resign due to an
influence peddling scandal) was not a member of congress, but the second
vice president is

David Barrow


>[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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