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The United Kingdom

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The supreme legislative power is vested in Parliament, which in its present form, as divided into two Houses of Legislature, the Lords and the Commons, dates from the middle of the 14th century.

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© 1976 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Paxton, J. (1976). The United Kingdom. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271050_5

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