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Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Pair :: Pair (n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote..

Parliamental :: Parliamental (a.) Parliamentary.

Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion..

Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority..

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to..

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question..

Parliamentarily :: Parliamentarily (adv.) In a parliamentary manner.

Table :: Table (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely..

Unparliamentary :: Unparliamentary (a.) Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies.

Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Whig :: Whig (n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in Englis

Blue Book :: Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers..

Parliamentary :: Parliamentary (a.) Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act..

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