21.   In Japan, which operates under a parliamentary system, four prime ministers have resigned in five years.

22.   In this parliamentary system, voters directly choose their representatives with one vote and use a second vote for one of the many competing political parties.

23.   It would move us toward a parliamentary system.

24.   Most constitutional experts oppose the idea of direct election of the prime minister, saying it would be inherently incompatible with the parliamentary system.

25.   Normally in a parliamentary system the head of state is the king or queen.

26.   Nor would the proposal change the parliamentary voting system, which opponents say makes it all but impossible for new parties to crack the grip of the governing party.

27.   Parliamentary systems inherited from colonial powers have proved troublesome in many countries.

28.   Senior opposition officials emphasize that the party remains committed to nonviolence and to the parliamentary system.

29.   South Africa has a parliamentary system in which the voters select a party rather than individual candidates.

30.   The British parliamentary system differs fundamentally from our own three-branch, separation-of-powers system.