Rubber stamp (politics)

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A rubber stamp is a political metaphor, referring to a person or institution with considerable de jure power but little de facto power — one that rarely or never disagrees with more powerful organizations.^[1] Historian Edward S. Ellis used the term toy parliament to describe a rubber-stamp legislature.