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THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION (The CPA) as at 2001

United by community of interest, respect for the rule of law and individual rights and freedoms ...

United by the pursuit of the positive ideals of parliamentary democracy ...

United in a resolve to promote knowledge and education about constitutional, legislative, economic, social and cultural systems within a parliamentary democratic framework...

Bonded to the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations and those countries having close historical and parliamentary associations with it ....

        These are the founding principles of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

Founded in 1911 as the Empire Parliamentary Association...

With Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Australia and the United Kingdom its founding Members

A name change to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

A constitutional change to let all member Branches participate in the management of its affairs

A management change with a Secretariat established to look after its affairs

By more than 20 new Parliaments and Legislatures ........ newly created Indian states and territories; Mozambique, Pakistan and its provinces, South Africa, the Seychelles..... to mention just a few

Now CPA is an international association of more than 14,000 Members in some 140 national, state, provincial and territorial Parliaments in over 50 Commonwealth countries