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Parliament was preceded by the unicameral Legislative Council, founded in 1835, which was a nominal body with little substantive authority. When the Imperial Parliament granted the Colony "representative" government in 1853, the body received the right to draft the Colony's first constitution. This document is still largely considered to be of great importance to the Cape Liberal Tradition, as it was the first law to grant nonracial franchise to the inhabitants of the Colony - albeit qualified with reference to property ownership.

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rdf:type	Legislature
rdfs:label	Cape Parliament
rdfs:comment	Parliament was preceded by the unicameral Legislative Council, founded in 1835, which was a nominal body with little substantive authority. When the Imperial Parliament granted the Colony "representative" government in 1853, the body received the right to draft the Colony's first constitution. This document is still largely considered to be of great importance to the Cape Liberal Tradition, as it was the first law to grant nonracial franchise to the inhabitants of the Colony - albeit qualified with reference to property ownership.
Leader	Chairman Diana Chandler Speaker Alfred Pillsbury, M.P.
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Background Color	lightblue
house type	dbkwik:resource/A_vW1rFuax2P3vpHSLXdKQ==
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meeting place	Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
Legislature	Parliament of the Cape Colony
Name	Cape Parliament
leader2 type	Common Council
leader1 type	Regional Council
Members	10(xsd:integer) 39(xsd:integer)
coa pic	Coat of arms of the Cape Colony.png
coa res	150(xsd:integer)
Houses	2(xsd:integer)
abstract	Parliament was preceded by the unicameral Legislative Council, founded in 1835, which was a nominal body with little substantive authority. When the Imperial Parliament granted the Colony "representative" government in 1853, the body received the right to draft the Colony's first constitution. This document is still largely considered to be of great importance to the Cape Liberal Tradition, as it was the first law to grant nonracial franchise to the inhabitants of the Colony - albeit qualified with reference to property ownership. The Parliament still remained weak, until 1872, when the Cape was granted "responsible" government (this lasted until 1910), which transferred the bulk of political power from the Imperial Governor to the local Prime Minister, to which ministers and the government would now be responsible. The Governor General lost most of his executive authority with the 1910 Cape Act. Parliament as it exists today too came about as a result of the Act, which restructured the House of Assembly (the lower house) into the Common Council, and the Legislative Council (the upper house) into the Regional Council. Parliament, while being part of the family of Westminster government, is based in large part on the United States Congress. The Common Council is constituted from electoral districts throughout the Cape, each of which must elect a new Member of Parliament (M.P.) every two years. The Regional Council allocates two seats to each of the Colony's five districts, and holds elections every four years. The Prime Minister, who is chosen by other MPs from the Common Council, has a fixed term of six years (three Common Council terms), and can therefore lose his seat in Parliament whilst keeping his position as Prime Minister. This has happened only once in the Cape's history during Prime Minister Benjamin Clare's term. While the idea of "sovereign legislature" has been avoided in Cape Colonial discourse, it would seem that the Cape Parliament does in fact hold legislative supremacy in the Cape. The country has no codified constitution, rather, like in the United Kingdom, "constitution" in the Cape refers to many conventions and legal customs - most importantly of which is the Cape Liberal Tradition. One argument against the legislative supremacy of Parliament is that the Cape Colonial Court has the power of judicial review (which has been used sparingly, mostly citing antiquated by valid legislation) over Acts of Parliament which violate this "constitution".
is Legislature of	Cape Colony (SWM)

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