Upper House of Bicameral National Legislature
Country | Article | Local Name |
---|---|---|
Tajikistan | National Assembly of Tajikistan | Majlisi Milliy |
Read more about this topic: National Assembly
Famous quotes containing the words upper, house, national and/or legislature:
“Give me the islands of the upper air,
all mountains
and the towering mountain trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“An ... important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)