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title: "First Parliamentary Election Belgium"
year: 1831
country: "Belgium"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1831/belgium-first-election"
slug: "belgium-first-election"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1831-01-01"
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# First Parliamentary Election Belgium

> Belgium's inaugural parliamentary elections established the Kingdom's constitutional monarchy and represented an early European experiment in representative democracy following independence from the Netherlands.

## Summary

Parliamentary counsel are lawyers who prepare drafts of legislation to be passed into law. The terms parliamentary drafter, parliamentary draftsman, legislative drafting officer and legislative counsel are also widely used.

## Sources

- [First Parliamentary Counsel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_counsel) - Wikipedia

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