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On these occasions, the regent was surrounded by his amaphakathi, a group of councilors of high rank who functioned as the regent's parliament and judiciary.†
Chpt 1.3 *

parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
He was also a persuasivespokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters' roll in the Cape.†
Chpt 1.7
The Separate Representation of Voters Act eventually robbed the Coloureds of their representation in Parliament.†
Chpt 2.8
Meetings were banned; printing presses were seized; and legislation was rushed through Parliament permitting the police to detain charged prisoners for twelve days without bail.†
Chpt 4.12
I then made application for the recusal of the magistrate on the groundsthat I did not consider myself morally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I had no representation.†
Chpt 5.16
NM: No African is a member of Parliament?†
Chpt 5.16
WITNESS: They have got no vote as far as Parliament is concerned.†
Chpt 5.16
NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils.†
Chpt 5.16
In Parliament, Helen Suzman, the representative of the liberal Progressive Party, cast the lone vote against the act.†
Chpt 5.18
Another act of Parliament prohibited the reproduction of any statement made by a banned person.†
Chpt 5.18
I regard the British Parliament as the mostdemocratic institution in the world, and the independence and impartiality of its judiciary never fail to arouse my admiration.†
Chpt 5.21
A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all opponents of apartheid.†
Chpt 5.22
Fifty members of the British Parliament had staged a march in London.†
Chpt 5.23
Verwoerd told Parliament that the judgment had not been influenced by the telegrams of protest and representations that had come in from around the world.†
Chpt 5.23
Then Major Kellerman appeared to say that Mrs. Helen Suzman, the lone member of the liberal Progressive Party in Parliament and the only voice of true opposition to the Nationalists in Parliament, would be arriving shortly.†
Chpt 6-33
Then Major Kellerman appeared to say that Mrs. Helen Suzman, the lone member of the liberal Progressive Party in Parliament and the only voice of true opposition to the Nationalists in Parliament, would be arriving shortly.†
Chpt 6-33
Unlike judges and magistrates, who were automatically permitted access to prisons, members of Parliament had to request permission to visit a prison.†
Chpt 6-33
Mrs. Suzman was one of the few, if not the only, members of Parliament who took an interest in the plight of political prisoners.†
Chpt 6-33
We later learned that Mrs. Suzman had taken up our case in Parliament, and within a few weeks of her visit, Suitcase was transferred off the island.†
Chpt 6-33
I raised the question of our release and reminded him of the case of the 1914 Afrikaner rebels, who had resorted to violence though they were represented in Parliament, could hold meetings, and could even vote.†
Chpt 7.44
W. Botha's plan to create a so-called tricameral Parliament, with Indian and Coloured chambers in addition to the white Parliament.†
Chpt 8.52
W. Botha's plan to create a so-called tricameral Parliament, with Indian and Coloured chambers in addition to the white Parliament.†
Chpt 8.52
Botha's ruse did not fool the people, as more than 80 percent of eligible Indian and Coloured voters boycotted the election to the new houses of Parliament in 1984.†
Chpt 8.52
The UDF had been created to coordinate protest against the new apartheid constitution in 1983, and the first elections to the segregated tricameral Parliament in 1984.†
Chpt 8.52
In late 1984 and early 1985, I had visits from two prominent Western statesmen, Lord Nicholas Bethell, a member of the British House of Lords and the European Parliament, and Samuel Dash, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a former counsel to the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee.†
Chpt 8.52
In my visit with Professor Dash, which quickly followed that of Lord Bethell, I laid out what I saw as the minimum for a future nonracial South Africa: a unitary state without homelands; nonracial elections for the central Parliament; and one-person-one-vote.†
Chpt 8.52
On January 31, 1985, in a debate in Parliament, the state president publicly offered me my freedom if I "unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument."†
Chpt 8.52
I had been warned by the authorities that the government was going to make a proposal involving my freedom, but I had not been prepared for the fact that it would be made in Parliament by the state president.†
Chpt 8.52
ON FEBRUARY 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk stood before Parliament to make the traditional opening speech and did something no other South African head of state had ever done: he truly began todismantle the apartheid system and lay the groundwork for a democratic South Africa.†
Chpt 8.63
On February 9, seven days after Mr. de Klerk's speech opening Parliament, I was informed that I was again going to Tuynhuys.†
Chpt 8.63
From the United States I proceeded to Canada, where I had a meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and also addressed their Parliament.†
Chpt 9.69
The agreement was that voters would elect four hundred representatives to a constituent assembly, which would both write a new constitution and serve as a parliament.†
Chpt 9.73
It provided for a bicameral parliament with a four-hundred-member national assembly elected by proportional representation from national and regional party lists and a senate elected indirectly by regional legislatures.†
Chpt 9.73
The forums were parliaments of the people, not unlike the meetings of chiefs at the Great Place that I witnessed as a boy.†
Chpt 9.73

parliaments = legislative assemblies that pass laws (existing in some countries)

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(1) (parliament with a lowercase "p")
a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
As a proper noun, you need to look at the context to determine the parliament to which Parliament is referring. For example, it could be the British Parliament, the European Union Parliament, the French Parliament, etc.

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