The Parlement of France is bicameral, and consists of the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) and the Senate (Sénat).
The National Assembly has 577 directly elected members. The Senate consists of 321 Senators, who are elected by representatives of local elected councils.
The parliament, which is also referred to as the Estates of Scotland, the Three Estates, the Scots Parliament or the auld Scots Parliament (Eng: old), met until the Acts of Union merged the parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England, creating the new Parliament of Great Britain in 1707.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom was originally formed in 1707 by the Acts of Union that replaced the former parliaments of England and Scotland - the Irish Parliament was subsumed into the Imperial Parliament in 1801.
The Malaysian Houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur.
Given France's runoff voting system, this means that the presidential candidate is required to obtain a nationwide majority of non-blank votes at either the first or second round of balloting, which presumably implies that the president is somewhat supported by at least half of the voting population; this gives him considerable legitimacy.
France uses a civil law system; that is, law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judge interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law).
France does not recognize religious law, nor does it recognize religious beliefs or morality as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions.
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