Parliamentary assembly
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A parliamentary assembly can mean one of the following:
  • National Parliament, a type of state legislative assembly
    Deliberative assembly
    A deliberative assembly is an organization comprising members who use parliamentary procedure to make decisions. In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the English Parliament as a "deliberative assembly," and the expression became the basic term for a body of...

     body
  • Assembly of national parliaments, an inter-parliamentary institution
    Inter-parliamentary institution
    An inter-parliamentary institution is an organization of more than one national legislatures ....

     of state national legislatures
  • International parliament
    International parliament
    An international parliament is a branch of an intergovernmental organization tasked with legislative powers and thus establishing a hybrid system of not only intergovernmentalism, but also supranationalism...

    , a supranational legislative body of intergovernmental organization
  • The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an...

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