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bucolic_frolic

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2. Parliaments have been meeting for 800 years?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 08:01 PM

May 13

Early parliaments were crude meetings of Lords. The system we know today got a boost from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and is really a product of the Enlightenment, which is slowly being extinguished now.

Does Roberts have dementia? His answers seem vague.

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🚨SCOTUS Justice HUMILIATED For PATHETIC Response to Trump! - Really American [View all] Rhiannon12866 May 13 OP

He is afflicted with the lifelong Republican malady. And it goes right to the bone. Walleye May 13 #1

Not to mention the threats Republicans will endure against themselves and their families for opposing TFG. Rhiannon12866 May 13 #3

I agree, they are getting death threats. Walleye May 13 #4

Parliaments have been meeting for 800 years? bucolic_frolic May 13 #2

Roberts contends the "judiciary requires a degree of independence..." Trueblue Texan May 13 #5