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Parliament and civil society must team up to properly represent the interests of Malaysians and achieve the ideals of democracy. 

THE Malaysian parliamentary democracy ought to be the legacy of vast and diverse experiences: Westminster traditions, international best practices and a local narrative of constitutionalism that spans the nascent ideas of rule of law expressed in the Terengganu Inscription Stone of 1326, the adat of Negri Sembilan that incorporated elections and decentralisation, and the Laws of Malacca that enabled free trade prosperity.

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