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House of Commons

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House of Commons: see Parliament Parliament, legislative assembly of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Over the centuries it has become more than a legislative body; it is the sovereign power of Great Britain, whereas the monarch remains sovereign in name only.
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House of Commons
(in Britain, Canada, etc.) the lower chamber of Parliament


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Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that subject.
Will you dine with me at the House of Commons one night next week?
The facts were stated, exactly as they are stated here, in the House of Commons.
 
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