Toy parliament
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Toy parliament refers to a parliament created with no real powers in order to give a guise of democracy to an autocratic regime.
For example, the term was used by historian Edward Sylvester Ellis, et al., to describe Abdul Hamid II's Turkish parliament of which met at Constantinople in 1876 created in a failed attempt to appease European powers.[1]
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- ^ Ellis, Edward S. (1914). The Story of the Greatest Nations: A Comprehensive History. New York: Francis R. Niglutsch.
