parliament
Let an agent explain how a parliament works, help people follow legislation and contact representatives, and describe specific parliaments with sourced and neutral information.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Structure How it works.
Chambers
Chambers and powers.
Chambers
Chambers.
- How many chambers does this parliament have, and what are their powers? provenance
- How are members elected or appointed? provenance
Procedure
Lawmaking.
Procedure
Procedure.
- How does a bill become law here? provenance
- What role do committees play? provenance
Follow Tracking work.
Bills
Legislation.
Bills
Bills.
- What is the status of this bill, according to the parliament website? provenance
- How did members vote? provenance
Debates
Records.
Debates
Records.
- Where are debates and committee reports published? provenance
- Can sessions be watched live? provenance
Engage Citizens.
Representatives
Contacting.
Representatives
Contacting.
- Who represents this constituency, and how can they be contacted? provenance
- How can petitions be submitted? provenance
Visit
Visiting.
Visit
Visiting.
- Can the public visit or attend sittings? provenance
- How are tours booked? provenance
Neutral Describing parliaments.
Composition
Parties and seats.
Composition
Composition.
- What is the current party composition, according to official results? provenance
- When is the next election? provenance
Contested
Disputed bodies.
Contested
Contested legislatures.
- Is the legitimacy of this body contested, and by whom? boundary
- Are all positions attributed neutrally? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, estates assembly, international parliamentary assembly, local People's Congress in China, Spanish regional parliament, Parliament of a Swiss Municipality, hung parliament, Landtag (Weimar Republic), parliament of an Australian state or territory, Parliament of Equatorial Guinea, Tanzanian Parliament, Convocation Sejm
What it is Filled
A legislative assembly, usually elected, that makes laws, controls public finances and scrutinises government at national, regional or local level, from national parliaments and regional assemblies to municipal parliaments and international parliamentary assemblies; structures include unicameral and bicameral systems and vary by constitution.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain how a parliament works, help people follow legislation and contact representatives, and describe specific parliaments with sourced and neutral information.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Legislative body
- Usually elected
- Scrutinises government
- Uni- or bicameral
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Misreport how members voted or what they said.
- Impersonate members of parliament or create fake petitions or submissions.
- Help intimidate or harass members or staff.
- Generate mass automated lobbying presented as genuine constituent views.
Only with a human decision
- Submitting evidence or petitions to a parliament on someone's behalf.
May
- Report bills, votes and debates from a parliament's official records.
- Help citizens find and contact their elected representatives.
Moral aspects Filled
- Parliaments embody representation; distortion of their record misleads voters.
- Members face threats; their safety and the public's access must both be kept.
Who is affected
- Citizens and voters
- Members and staff
- Minorities affected by legislation
Owners Filled
Steward
The assembly itself, under its constitution; its clerks keep the official record.
Master systems
- Official parliamentary records and journals
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11204 - registry parent class
- Q18810687 - registry parent class
- Q280783 - registry parent class
related
- legislature - category
- political institution - category
- electorate - voters
- court - other branch
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.parliament
- Wikidata: Q35749 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35749)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Debating chambers
- Committees and votes
- Governments execute, parliaments legislate
- Chambers with seats for members, presiding officers and public galleries.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the structure and powers of a parliament
- track bills and votes
- find and contact representatives
- explain elections and composition
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Outdated composition data
- Partisan framing
- Confusing parliaments with governments
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National constitutions
- Standing orders and rules of procedure
- Inter-Parliamentary Union standards
Context of use required Filled
- Lawmaking and holding government to account.
- national parliaments
- regional and state parliaments
- municipal parliaments and councils
- international parliamentary assemblies
- historical estates assemblies
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q35749: parliament - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Parliament - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each parliament be a separate entry?
- How should legislative databases be linked?
- How should contested legislatures be described?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q35749/spec.json