[Winniesboy]

Quite. That suggests that failure lies in specific local causes, rather than being inevitable with the structure. There are plenty of other successful parliaments which have never descended to dictatorship - Israel, for instance, or most of the ‘Old Commonwealth’ nations where legislatures are based on the Westminster model (Australia, New Zealand etc). Just as there are successful and unsuccessful republics.

[jmacusa]

I'm eternally grateful that We The People Of The United States never adopted parlimitarianism. We're we ever to do that it would be the end of America. Since 1945 the UK has had 23 votes of ‘’no confidence’’ in it's parliament with the most recent being in 1979.