Talk:Legislative initiative
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"unlike parliament, which is just a governmental body."
I can't disagree enough. Certainly under the British model Parliament is not a governmental body in itself, rather the government is (mostly) a subset of Parliament.
Parliament is the supreme legislative body and does possess legislative initiave. Indeed in the UK Parliament is theroetically the sole soverign legislative body and all others (be they devolved assemblies or local councils) have their right to legislate anything devolved to them from Parliament.
I think the distinction intended here is that Parliament mostly enacts the legislation of the government (whose party comprises its majority) whereas in a congress there is greater freedom from Presidential influence.
