Institutions
- The Cortes (Cortes Generales, "General Courts"), the national legislative assembly of Spain
- The advisory councils of kings in Iberia, see Cortes Generales#History of the Cortes
- Various subnational parliaments of Spain's autonomous communities:
- The Corts Valencianes (Cortes Valencianas, "Valencian Courts"), in the Valencian Community.
- The Cortes (Cortes Gerais, "General Courts"), the parliament of Portugal prior to 1910. See list of Portuguese Cortes
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Famous quotes containing the word institutions:
“... no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails—aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.”
—Casey Hayden (b. c. 1940)