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^Julian Go (2007). "A Globalizing Constitutionalism?, Views from the Postcolony, 1945-2000". In Arjomand, Saïd Amir (ed.). Constitutionalism and political reconstruction. Brill. pp. 92–94. ISBN978-9004151741; "How the Westminster Parliamentary System was exported around the World". University of Cambridge. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
Further reading
Graham, Harry (2015) [1910]. The Mother of Parliaments. 1347470220. ISBN9781347470220.
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mother, parliaments, confused, with, mother, parliament, phrase, coined, british, politician, reformer, john, bright, speech, birmingham, january, 1865, reference, england, actual, words, were, england, mother, parliaments, this, reported, times, following, ex. Not to be confused with Mother of Parliament The mother of parliaments is a phrase coined by the British politician and reformer John Bright in a speech at Birmingham on 18 January 1865 It was a reference to England His actual words were England is the mother of parliaments This was reported in The Times on the following day 1 The expression therefore is often wrongly applied to the Parliament of the United Kingdom because of the adoption of the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy by many countries of the former British Empire 2 3 4 See also EditHistory of democracy History of parliamentarism Parliament Parliament in the Making Parliamentary system Prime minister Parliamentary sovereignty The History of ParliamentReferences Edit Oxford Dictionary of Quotations revised 4th ed 1996 p 141 Parliament CUP Archive 1957 p 517 UK Politics Talking Politics The Mother of Parliaments BBC Talking Politics 3 June 1998 Retrieved 23 April 2016 Full text of Obama s speech to UK parliament CNN 25 May 2011 Retrieved 23 April 2016 Britain and France Get Poor Marks in Democracy Ranking Spiegel Online 2 January 2011 Retrieved 23 April 2016 A Makeover for the Mother of Parliaments The New York Times 11 July 2015 Retrieved 23 April 2016 Seidle F Leslie Docherty David C 2003 Reforming parliamentary democracy McGill Queen s University Press p 3 ISBN 9780773525085 Julian Go 2007 A Globalizing Constitutionalism Views from the Postcolony 1945 2000 In Arjomand Said Amir ed Constitutionalism and political reconstruction Brill pp 92 94 ISBN 978 9004151741 How the Westminster Parliamentary System was exported around the World University of Cambridge 2 December 2013 Retrieved 16 December 2013 Further reading EditGraham Harry 2015 1910 The Mother of Parliaments 1347470220 ISBN 9781347470220 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The mother of parliaments amp oldid 1083359195, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
