Parliamentary assembly
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A parliamentary assembly can mean one of the following:
- National Parliament, a type of state legislative assemblyDeliberative assemblyA 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 institutionInter-parliamentary institutionAn inter-parliamentary institution is an organization of more than one national legislatures ....
of state national legislatures - International parliamentInternational parliamentAn 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 EuropeParliamentary Assembly of the Council of EuropeThe 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...