National Assembly
National Assembly is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known National Assembly, and the first legislature to be known by this title, was that established during the French Revolution in 1789, known as the Assemblée nationale. Consequently, the name is particularly common in Francophone countries, but is also found in some Commonwealth countries. In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848–1849 and 1918–1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament (Reichstag) later. The legislature of the Estado Novo regime in Portugal was dubbed National Assembly, while the Chamber of Corporations was a purely advisory chamber.
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... Name Local Name Notes Iraq National Assembly of Iraq A constitutional convention Quebec, Canada National Assembly of Quebec Assemblée nationale du Québec A unicameral provincial ... Wales National Assembly for Wales Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru Can make Acts of the Assembly and Delegated legislation ...
... The National Assembly is Ivory Coast's unicameral legislative body ... semi-representative bodies of the French Colonial period, the first National Assembly was constituted on 27 November 1960 with 70 elected member (députés) in ... The powers of this Assembly expire at the end of its second regular session (session ordinaire) in the fifth year of its mandate ...
... power was vested in both the government and the former Grand National Assembly ... Elections for the upper house (National Council) were held on 31 December, 2007 and on 23 April 2013, while elections for the lower house, the 47-seat National Assembly, were held on March 24 ... Ngedup, and the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) headed by Jigmi Thinley, competed in the National Assembly election ...
... Gillani was voted into the National Assembly of Pakistan in March 2008 ... politics when he first got elected to the local parliamentary assembly in the 1960s and he became a member of PPP at its founding in 1967 ... The first time Gillani met as an MNA (member of the National Assembly) was in the 1988–1990 assembly when he represented the 144th constituency ...
... Territorial Administration and Security from 1988 to 1994 and as Permanent Secretary of the National Decentralization Commission from 1994 to 1995 ... In the December 2012 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate in Houet Province ... When the National Assembly began sitting for its new parliamentary term, Ouattara was elected as President of the National Assembly on 28 December 2012 ...
Famous quotes containing the words national assembly, assembly and/or national:
“Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front of his door than any other man can afford.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)