Meanings
- uncountableSupport for a parliamentary system of government.
The growing independence of the state was expressed as French absolutism and English parliamentarianism.
1999, John Ehrenberg, Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, page 902 more examples
Between July and August 1863 Palmerston and Russell were obsessed by the notion that France would destroy Prussia if it came to blows, and that Bismarck and his King would be drowned by the rising tide of parliamentarianism.
1966, Lillian M. Penson, H.W.V. Temperley, Foundation of British Foreign Policy, page 248Thanks to the dominance of social-chauvinism and opportunism, this remarkable criticism of parliamentarianism made in 1871 also now belongs to the 'forgotten words' of Marxism.
1996, Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross, A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory, page 256
Origin
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