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It is impossible to reach a proper understanding of UK government in the 1990s without giving detailed consideration to the role of Parliament. Parliament in the United Kingdom has a distinguished history. Its has its origins in the thirteenth century, and it has maintained many of the procedures and much of the terminology employed centuries ago. All of this is in sharp contrast to many of the legislatures of other Western industrial nations, which, in their present form, have a history of less than fifty years. Such legislatures are conscious creations, the products of codified constitutions.
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Norton, P. (1995). Parliament’s Changing Role. In: Pyper, R., Robins, L. (eds) Governing the UK in the 1990s. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23899-6_5
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