Federal Assembly

Federal Assembly may refer to:

  • Federal Assembly (Russia), the Russian federal parliament
  • Federal Assembly (Switzerland), the Swiss federal parliament
  • Federal Assembly (Czechoslovakia), the former Czechoslovak federal parliament

similarly named are:

  • Federal Convention (Austria), the name for a joint-session of the Austrian federal parliament
  • Federal Convention (Germany), a formal convention that elects the country's Federal President
  • Federal Convention (German Confederation), the federal assembly of the German Confederation (1815-1866)
  • Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia

Famous quotes containing the words federal and/or assembly:

    “I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local and state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering ... I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “Our assembly being now formed not by ourselves but by the goodwill and sprightly imagination of our readers, we have nothing to do but to draw up the curtain ... and to discover our chief personage on the stage.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)