Taylor and Francis Loewenberg, G: British and French Parliaments in Comparative

The representative assembly, or parliament, as it is most widely called, is at once an old, a ubiquitous, and a controversial political institution. This book deals with parliament (the generic term for what also may be known as legislature, diet, or knesset), what it has been and is, what it does and should do, and what may become of it. ...