Elections are held every four years in universal suffrage ( for all citizens above 18 ), with each of the twenty-four constituencies ( see below ) electing one or more representatives ( senators ) to the lower house of RMI ’ s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela.

Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act 1906, which established a bicameral system of university government comprising a Senate ( composed of members of the faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a Board of Governors ( composed of members of the community ), which exercises exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority over all other matters.

The governance was modelled on Ontario's University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

Each bicameral Australian state ( that is, all but Queensland ) also has its own Black Rod.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

This first draft enshrined the basic principles of what eventually emerged as Australia's constitution: a federal system with specified powers ceded by the colonies to a national government, a bicameral legislature with an upper house in which all the colonies would have equal representation, and a federal judiciary.

With a total of 60 lawmakers, the Alaska Legislature is the smallest bicameral state legislature in the United States and the second-smallest of all state legislatures ( only the 49-member unicameral Nebraska Legislature is smaller ).

The bicameral legislature, whose members would all be elected by the people, would itself elect all the officers of the executive and judicial branches.

The governance was modeled on the University of Toronto Act, 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The Constitution of Afghanistan guarantees at least 64 delegates to be female in the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly (" The elections law shall adopt measures to attain, through the electorate system, general and fair representation for all the people of the country, and proportionate to the population of very province, on average, at least two females shall be the elected members of the House of People from each province.

On 4 March 1849, however, Minister-President Felix zu Schwarzenberg took the initiative and imposed the March Constitution, which promised the equality of all Austrian people and also provided for a bicameral Reichstag legislature.

This bicameral legislature consisted of a " Second Volksraad ", with suffrage for all white males above 16 years, as well as a " First Volksraad " ( which was the highest authority in charge of state policy ), with suffrage limited to persons above 30 with permanent property and a longer history of settlement, or burghers above 16.

Opponents of this system point out that unlike the bicameral systems in the UK and Canada, the Bahraini system gives the unelected upper house equal or more legislative power than the elected lower house, allowing the King to control all legislation.

It became a bicameral legislature for all India.

All felonies remain considered a serious crime, but concerns of proportionality ( i. e., that the punishment fit the crime ) have in modern times prompted legislatures to require or permit the imposition of less serious punishments, ranging from lesser terms of imprisonment to the substitution of a jail sentence or even the suspension of all incarceration contingent upon a defendant's successful completion of probation.

Elections are held in Marxist-Leninist states for all positions within the legislative structure, municipal councils, national legislatures and presidencies.

Thus the parliament consists of 500 appointed members altogether, where all are indirectly elected by state legislatures to serve six-year terms.

Individual state legislatures independently laid embargoes, negotiated directly with foreigners, raised armies and made war, all violating the letter and the spirit of the “ Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union ”.

No new state, however, may be formed by joining multiple states, without the consent of all state legislatures concerned.

Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment was bitterly contested: all the Southern state legislatures, with the exception of Tennessee, refused to ratify the amendment.

Deadlocks were a problem, but they were the exception rather than the norm ; many legislatures did not deadlock over elections at all.

Between 1966 and 1973, all local legislatures were dissolved and provincial governors were appointed by the new president.

Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures, except for Virginia.

The convention consists of all Bundestag members as well as an equal number of delegates chosen by the legislatures of the Länder ( states ).

Efforts have been made to create a unified body of commercial law in the United States ; the most successful of these attempts has resulted in the general adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code, which has been adopted in all 50 states ( with some modification by state legislatures ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. territories.

" Establishing a national initiative procedure would likely require an amendment to the Constitution, which would under Article V require two-thirds of both houses of Congress or the application of two-thirds of the state legislatures to propose, and three-fourths of all state legislatures ( or conventions in three-fourths of the states ) to ratify.

In contrast to parliamentary systems, the failure of the legislature to authorize spending may not in all circumstances result in an election, because some such legislatures enjoy fixed terms and so cannot be dissolved before a date of termination, which can result in a prolonged crisis.

# The Congress of the Confederation will " earnestly recommend " to state legislatures to recognize the rightful owners of all confiscated lands " provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British subjects ";

Almost all city legislatures are also unicameral in the sense that the city councils are not divided into two chambers.

Resolved unanimously, that the delegates appointed to represent this colony in General Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent states, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the crown or parliament of Great Britain ; and that they give the assent of this colony to such declaration, and to whatever measures may be thought proper and necessary by the Congress for forming foreign alliances and a confederation of the colonies, at such time, and in the manner, as to them shall seem best: Provided, that the power of forming government for, and the regulations of the internal concerns of each colony, be left to the respective colonial legislatures.

After all, under the U. S. Constitution, they had to get the approval of Congress as well as the legislatures of both states.

The Meech Lake Accord failed when the provincial legislatures of Newfoundland and Manitoba adjourned without bringing the issue to a vote ; all 10 provincial legislatures had to ratify the accord for it to become law.

The amendment must be passed by the House of Commons, Senate, and all provincial legislatures.

It has been argued by Jeremy Webber and Robert Andrew Young that, as the office is the core of authority in the province, the secession of Quebec from Confederation would first require the abolition or transformation of the post of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ; such an amendment to the constitution of Canada could not be done without, according to Section 41 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the approval of the federal parliament and all other provincial legislatures in Canada.

The legislatures of the Australian states and territories all follow the Westminster model described in the Australian electoral system.