Talk:Parliament

Minimum criterias of Parliaments

ancient and medieval and early modern era non-European and Orthodox Christian "examples" were not parliaments at all.

Why?

• Parliament is NOT a simple advisory board/body of the monarchs, but the supreme legislative institution in a given state/country.
• Parliaments are not only a council of a local government of a single city/settlement, which rule over non-represented vast areas/territories (Like Roman Senate, or medieval Novgorod) but they have a territorially well distributed representation of the whole country (like nobility and Church clergy of medieval counties/provinces and church districts, and burgeroise of bigest important cities.)
• Their legal acts are laws, which are hierarhically higher legal norm than the orders/acts of monarchs / presidents
• It is at least politically constitutionally equal or stronger institution than the monarch or president.
• There is a constitution in the given country, historic "unwritten" constitution (like England) or written modern constitution, which ensure the solid status and power of that legislative body.--Creator Edition (talk) 07:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Parliament under Henry VIII and Edward VI - "Williams"

The final paragraph in the above section quotes "Wiliams".

As Williams described it, "King and parliament were not separate entities, but a single body, of which the monarch was the senior partner and the Lords and the Commons the lesser, but still essential, members."

Who is Williams? The name does not appear anywhere else in the article (at least as far as I can see). Am I missing something obvious?

ritenerek^talk :) 01:53, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

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