Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and thereby holds ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories. While Parliament is bicameral, it has three parts: the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. The three parts acting together to legislate may be described as the King-in-Parliament. The Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation; thus power is de facto vested in the House of Commons.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Print of the Palace of Westminster, before it burnt down in 1834
Victoria Tower In London.
Leading 17th-century Parliamentarian John Hampden is one of the Five Members annually commemorated
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, state/provincial/regional, local, even supranational. Countries differ as to what extent they grant deliberative assemblies at the subnational law-making power, as opposed to purely administrative responsibilities.
United States Capitol building, where the legislature of the United States, the United States Congress, meets, located in Washington, DC
The Congress of the Republic of Peru, the country's national legislature, meets in the Legislative Palace in 2010.
The German Bundestag, its theoretical lower house
The Australian Senate, its upper house