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This week, Robert Pastor's Center for North American Studies at American University is co-sponsoring the "Model North American Parliament" for students from the three countries.
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He suggested it could be based on a similar model to the Scottish parliament's current powers, underpinned by a separate legal jurisdiction for Wales.
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They see President Obama's Budget announced "dead on arrival" in Congress, and they see our chancellor deliver his Budget to a rapt Parliament, and they know which model would suit them better.
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Instead, some appear to favour grafting the model that prevails in Jordan, where King Abdullah intermittently suspends parliament and rules by decree, but maintains stability, refuses to threaten Israel and listens as keenly to his foreign backers as he does to his own people.
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Mr Berlusconi already has a credibility problem at home over his private life, having refused to make good his pledge to explain to parliament his relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model.
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With the rest of the euro zone insisting that economic model can't continue, resistance from the Cypriot government and members of Parliament had been running high.
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The other model is to write down a list of the powers that would be kept by Westminster, and allow the Scottish parliament to do everything else.
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