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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/11/18 01:41, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 3:29 AM Allan Mustard <<a
href="mailto:allan@mustard.net" moz-do-not-send="true">allan@mustard.net</a>>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hmmm.
Reaching back to my bachelor's degree in political
science, Parliament is also a government body, the
legislative branch of the government, so even a member
of the opposition is part of "government" in its
broadest sense. I would tag it office=government,
government=parliamentarian or something similar.
Executive, legislative, judicial are all "government".</font><br>
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<div>There's a can of annelids here, just waiting to be
opened.<br>
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<div>Over here in the UK, I have an MP (Member of Parliament)
representing me in the UK national</div>
<div>government. There's also the House of Lords (upper
chamber), some members of which might</div>
<div>have unofficial offices outside of parliament buildings
where they can be contacted, but a quick</div>
<div>search shows no evidence of such. Since I live in Wales,
I also have an AM (Assembly Member)</div>
<div> of the National Assembly of Wales. And, for a few more
months, I have an MEP (Member of the</div>
<div> European Parliament). Scotland and Northern Ireland
have devolved governments like Wales</div>
<div>(but different names for their assemblies and members)
but England does not (don't get me</div>
<div>started on the West Lothian question).<br>
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<div>Other member countries of the European Union will have
MEPs in addition to representatives of</div>
<div>their own national governments and some may have (like
the UK) devolved assemblies in</div>
<div>addition. The US has state and federal government. Oh,
and don't forget that technically, the US</div>
<div> has three branches of government so we have to decide if
we absorb the judiciary into this</div>
<div>(does our definition of government differ from that of
the US Constitution).<br>
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<div>It's going to take some careful thought, and many
postings here, to come up with a scheme</div>
<div>with sensible terminology that works for all those
situations. </div>
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And those examples are only the ones 'we' are aware of. I'd like
some thoughts from elsewhere.<br>
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To me these are all 'politicians' or at least serve a political role
when acting (I hope) on our behalf to represent 'us'. <br>
Don't think every situation would be happy with 'parliamentarians'.
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I am not going to try and distinguish between the various levels -
upper and lower houses, federal, state, local, unions etc... <br>
That could go in the description, far too many variables around the
world for a single system I think. <br>
Lets get the first level of tagging done before contemplating a more
complex area?<br>
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