The United States does not have a parliament.

The USA is not a parliament system. The federal government is divided into 3 separate branches of executive (president), judicial (supreme court) and legislative (senate and house of representatives). Each branch has specific powers and authority and act as a check and balance against each other. Here's a link to Wikipedia which explains it further: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_government

Anonymous, thank you so much for your question and it is a wonderful question. USA is not a parliament; however; at present, most of us have not really been able to ascertain exactly what USA is. That is the beauty of FREEdumb! We actually don't have to figure it out!

The United States has a bicameral legislative branch (parliament) called "the Congress" which consists of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives (essentially a House of Commons in other systems) is a proportional representative branch while the Senate has two members per state. There are 435 voting members of the House of Representatives (and a few non-voting representing the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Guam. The Northern Marianas have no representation at all.)

Well, for starters, we don't have a parliament here. There are three branches of government, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. In a nutshell, the Legislative branch creates laws, the Executive branch enforces those laws, and the Judicial branch interprets those laws. It's a bit more complicated than that, however, so I'm not sure if you want me to go into all of that. In addition to these three branches, each branch can "check" each other, known as "checks and balances." For example, in law making, the President, part of the Executive branch, gets final say before a law is passed. The Supreme Court gets to decide to change a law after it has been brought up to them. (At least I think. I was kind of half-paying attention in U.S. Government :) ) This way, no one branch has more power over the other. Hope this helps. There's a lot more to it, but I'm not sure how much you want to know. EDIT: Looking up the definition of parliament, it seems you might want to know about the legislative branch of the government. The legislative branch is made up of two "houses," the Senate and the House of Representatives. These two are known together as Congress. In order for a law to be passed, it must pass through one house via vote, and then through the other house, via vote. The bill then goes to the President. The President may "veto" the bill, but the Congress has the ability to override the veto via vote. There's different ways that the size of the Senate and House of Representatives are decided, and there's also differences between what which house can and can't do, but I'm not sure if you want to know about all of that.