The Position of the Jordanian Parliament from the Internal Policies of the Government of Suleiman Al-Nabulsi (1956-1957) AD. (Study in the Parliament's Minutes)

Abstract

The study examines the positions of the Fifth Jordanian Parliament’s members from the internal policies of Suleiman Nabulsi's government from 1956-1957, including issues of freedom, democracy, economic, and developmental issues, with the ideas and demands presented by the members to develop. Actually, the Fifth parliament is significant because of the broad representation of the political parties, which exceeded half of its deputies. Moreover, the Nabulsi government is important because it was the first Jordanian experience with formation of a party-based parliamentary government that emerged from the parliament. Thus, this study compresence the intellectual and political debate defined, especially with regard to the government’s internal policies, the nature and its relationship with it, the quality of concerns, and the types of challenges which preoccupied the parties at the time, and to analyze the ideas, programs, legislation to address. The study combined the historical approach of temporal and objective frameworks and placing them in their historical context analyzing of governmental and parliamentary discourse to understand the parties' positions and ways of thinking and approaching domestic politics. The study relied primarily on the minutes of the Fifth Jordanian Parliament's sessions preserved in the Jordanian parliament's archive and published in the Official Gazette, and a large number of studies on the experience of the government of Suleiman Nabulsi, a number of Jordanian newspapers, and references in Arabic and English that discussed the affairs of this period. It should be noted that no previous research has been conducted on this topic and based on the parliament's archive.