non-parliamentary

In America, with our non-parliamentary system, the role of the opposition is crucial in making our government function, particularly in moving legislation between the legislative and executive branches.

Curtis Roosevelt: Whatever Happened to an Opposition Party? Curtis Roosevelt 2011

In America, with our non-parliamentary system, the role of the opposition is crucial in making our government function, particularly in moving legislation between the legislative and executive branches.

Curtis Roosevelt: Whatever Happened to an Opposition Party? Curtis Roosevelt 2011

In America, with our non-parliamentary system, the role of the opposition is crucial in making our government function, particularly in moving legislation between the legislative and executive branches.

Curtis Roosevelt: Whatever Happened to an Opposition Party? Curtis Roosevelt 2011

And: "It is always instinctively repellant to see a piece of legislation-particularly one having to do with basic enfranchisement-get saddled and ultimately sunk with a completely unrelated provision, but that's how political minorities, particularly in non-parliamentary countries such as the U.S., try to prevent the majority from running roughshod."

DeMorning DeBonis: June 10, 2010 2010

Since July 2007, Moonie has been retained as a "non-parliamentary" consultant to one of the company's major American divisions, Northrop Grumman IT.

Lord Moonie - Classic champagne socialist - asking questions on behalf of Northrop Grumman Corporation. FIDO The Dog 2009

And it's hard to make bold changes in a non-parliamentary system.

CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2009 2009

* Federalist and non-parliamentary democracy: in most other systems, the head of the government tells the government what to do.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the U.S. is Doomed to Have an Expensive and Inefficient Health Care System 2009

For a non-parliamentary party ie, no members currently in parliament you also need 500 members, all on the electoral roll. of course if we could convince someone to join our party, we would only need the five hundred dollars.

Cheeseburger Gothic » So, care to join me in the country’s most exclusive club. 2009

I'm wondering just how far this will have to go before the non-parliamentary subjects of this country take to the streets and bedeck the lamp posts of Whitehall and near environs with the rotting corpses of "Honourable Members" of both the Lower and Upper Houses.

Open Thread 2009

His only non-parliamentary post was with bar and club company Urbium plc for which he was paid around £25,000 per annum.

The Shadow Cabinet Rich List - Part 2 2008