parliamentary agents

parliamentary agents
Professional lobbyists, in the employ of private persons and corporations, who exert themselves among the members of parliament in the interest of legislation favorable to their constituents, but in a strictly lawful manner.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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