Along with Liberal George Smitherman, he was perhaps the most energetic speaker in the legislature from 1999 to 2003.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.

This is done because the name change " was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma ".

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

The so-called Parliamentary Republic was not a true parliamentary system, in which the chief executive is elected by the legislature.

Yet free debate within the confines of the legislature was permitted.

Neither bill was passed in the legislature.

Scott County was formed by an act of the Wisconsin Territorial legislature in 1837.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

A National Assembly, composed entirely of the PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature ; elections have been postponed indefinitely following the start of the border conflict with Ethiopia.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

This Constructive Vote of No Confidence is intended to avoid the situation of the Weimar Republic in which the executive did not have enough support in the legislature to govern effectively, but the legislature was too divided to name a successor.

As a respected military hero and large landowner, he held local office and was elected to the Virginia provincial legislature, the House of Burgesses, beginning in 1758.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

In 1922, Dartiguenave was replaced by Louis Borno, who ruled without a legislature until 1930.

A plebiscite permitted the transfer of all authority in economic matters from the legislature to the executive, but Vincent was not content with this expansion of his power.

In 1935 he forced through the legislature a new constitution, which was also approved by plebiscite.

The constitution praised Vincent, and it granted the executive sweeping powers to dissolve the legislature at will, to reorganize the judiciary, to appoint ten of twenty-one senators ( and to recommend the remaining eleven to the lower house ), and to rule by decree when the legislature was not in session.

A treaty incorporating the key provisions of this agreement with J. P. Morgan was finally signed in January 1911 and submitted to the Honduran legislature by Dávila.

As a consequence of this refusal, in order to secure the extradition of Einhorn and ensure that he was imprisoned for the murder he committed, the Pennsylvania legislature passed in 1998 a bill ( nicknamed the " Einhorn Law ") allowing defendants convicted in absentia to request another trial.

Originally named Twality when created in 1843, the territorial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, George Washington, in 1849.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

The legislature for the Dakota Territory authorized the formation of Dickey County in 1881, naming it for one of their members, George H. Dickey.

The county is named in honor of George Mason, a member of the Virginia legislature who campaigned for the adoption of the United States Bill of Rights.

George F. Will of the The Washington Post criticized the proposal in an Op-Ed piece, saying that a presidential question time would endanger separation of powers as the President of the United States, unlike the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is not a member of the legislature.

Both the community and township were named after George B. Dresbach, who founded the community and was a representative in the state legislature.

The state legislature divided Rowan County in 1788, and the new county was named Iredell for James Iredell, associate justice of the first Supreme Court during the presidency of George Washington.

Minersville was incorporated as a borough on April 1, 1831 by Act of the legislature approved by Governor George Wolf.

The legislature took steps in 1988 and again in 1994 to transfer control of the Alamo to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department but the attempt failed after then-governor George W. Bush vowed to veto any bill removing the DRT's authority.

In 1751, the legislature of the Province of Maryland authorized the purchase of of land from Gordon and George Beall at the price of £ 280.

Muhlenberg was elected by the legislature to the U. S. Senate on a second ballot in February 1801 over George Logan, but resigned on June 30 of that same year.

They moved to Lillooet in 1931 when George campaigned for the town's seat in the provincial legislature, and launched the once-famous Bridge River-Lillooet News.

David Humphreys ( July 10, 1752 – February 21, 1818 ) was an American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature.

From 1936 to 1938, he was leader of Conservative Party of Ontario though, as he did not have a seat in the legislature George S. Henry remained Leader of the Opposition.

when the Georgia legislature elected him to replace George Jones, an appointee who had held the office for a few months after the death of Abraham Baldwin.

In 1778, after victories in the region by the Patriot general George Rogers Clark, the Virginia legislature organized the first civil government in the region.

The North Carolina legislature elected Whig George Edmund Badger to replace Haywood in the Senate.

Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1875 from the riding of Lillooet and began as a supporter of the government of George Anthony Walkem but soon joined the Opposition.

Beaven was elected to the provincial legislature in 1871, the year of union with Canada and served in the cabinets of De Cosmos and his successor George Anthony Walkem as chief commissioner of land and works.

That year he won a seat in the legislature and served as Provincial Secretary from 1872 to 1878 when he succeeded George E. King as Premier and Attorney-General.

On April 2, 1784 the new state's legislature voted to change the name to Washington County, in honor of George Washington, stating, “ From and after the passing of this act, the county of Tryon shall be called and known by the name of Montgomery, and the county of Charlotte by the name of Washington .” In 1799 Clinton County was created from part of Washington County.

*** George Washington Adams ( 1801 – 1829 ), member of Massachusetts state legislature

He is the only Nebraskan besides George Norris, the architect of Nebraska's unicameral legislature, to win five consecutive statewide elections.