During the interwar period of Poland's independence, the first Legislative Sejm of 1919, a Constituent Assembly, passed the Small Constitution of 1919, which introduced a parliamentary-republic system and proclaimed the principle of the Sejm ’ s sovereignty.

The Legislative Council of British Somaliland passed a resolution in April 1960 requesting independence and union with the Trust Territory of Somalia, which was scheduled to gain independence on 1 July that year.

Under the terms of the Government of India Act 1919, Viceroys shared some limited aspects of their authority with the Central Legislative Assembly, one of the first steps of reform as India progressed towards home rule under the Government of India Act 1935, independence as a Dominion in 1947, and ultimately the declaration of a republic in 1949.

However, in areas of national defense and international affairs, the President of United States possesses great constitutional independence that is virtually unchecked by the Legislative and Judicial branch.

* 1918-Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur presents a motion demanding the independence of Quebec.

In 1965 the Democratic Party won 28 of the 31 contested seats in the new Legislative Assembly, giving it a clear mandate to lead Botswana to independence.

* January-The King announces that he will not make the Legislative Council an elected body, as it would be inconsistent with the monarchy, but that he will favor measures for the Council's independence.

A grandfather clause in the 1970 Constitution, which was adopted on independence, provided for the old Legislative Council to be renamed as the House of Representatives and remain in office, pending the first post-independence elections in 1972.

It was the best opposition electoral performance in Singapore since independence ( and the most seats won by the opposition since 1963, when the Barisan Sosialis Party won 13 out of 51 seats in the pre-independence Legislative Assembly ).

took his place on the Legislative Council and led the independence movement.

It destroyed the independence of the appointed governor and Legislative Council and further concentrated power in the Cabinet.

Prior to the independence of Malaya, he was also a member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.

Prior to independence, the party campaigned for the residential qualification for candidates to the Legislative Assembly to be reduced, in order to allow Henry to stand.

The coat of arms of Uganda was adopted three weeks before the proclamation of independence by the Uganda Legislative Council.

Ongoing negotiations between Mara and Sidiq Koya, who had taken over the leadership of the mainly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party on Patel's death in 1969 led to a second constitutional conference in London, in April 1970, at which Fiji's Legislative Council agreed on a compromise electoral formula and a timetable for independence as a fully sovereign and independent nation with the Commonwealth.

The Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago served as an advisory commission to the Governor in British-ruled Trinidad and Tobago, between 1925 and independence in 1961.

David Enniskillen ( as he was popularly known ) had spent much of his life in the Colony of Kenya, having been elected a member of the Legislative Council of Kenya in the early 1960s, just before independence.

After the independence of Botswana, Norman-Walker was posted to the Seychelles in February 1967 to succeed Lord Oxford and Asquith as the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, President of both the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Seychelles and Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

In the first election in Uttar Pradesh after the independence for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly held in 1952, he was elected from Nanital constituency and became an MLA for the first time on Praja Samajwadi Party ticket.

John Dunmore Lang, a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and advocate of Australian independence.

The general election to the Legislative Council of Fiji in 1966 was the last to be held before independence from the United Kingdom was granted in 1970.

After Guatemala gained its independence from Spain in 1821, San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán belonged to the Zacapa Department under Decree 683 of April 13, 1908 ; with Legislative Decree 1965 of April 3, 1934 the new Department of El Progreso was established, which included San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán.

Danquah became a member of the Legislative Council in 1946 and actively pursued independence legislation for his country.

Laws are made in a 17-member Legislative Assembly that has all state and local government functions.

The CLP has contested Northern Territory Legislative Assembly elections since 1974.

The CLP has also contested many Legislative Assembly by-elections.

The Legislative Assembly has ten members, eight of which are elected using block voting ( five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency ) and two ex officio members ( the Chief Executive and the Director of Finance ).

Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Finland, and the government has limited rights to amend or extend legislation.

In the event of an affirmative referendum a Transitional Legislative Assembly is elected for one year, which has the task of writing a constitution for the Region, which is then put to a referendum requiring a simple majority to pass.

The hierarchy of authority in Malaysia, in accordance to the Federal Constitution, has stipulated the three branches ( administrative components ) of the Malaysian government as consisting of the, Executive, Judiciary and Legislative branch.

Malaysia has a multi-party system since the first direct election of the Federal Legislative Council of Malaya in 1955 on a first-past-the-post basis.

The only exception has been Hal Colebatch, a member of the Legislative Council who accepted the premiership in April 1919 on the understanding that an Assembly seat would be found for him, only to resign a month later when no seat could be found.

Since 2011, it has also produced news stories about the American Legislative Exchange Council as part of CMD's ALEC Exposed investigation and about Wisconsin's policy controversies, as CMD is located in the state's capital.

The Quasi War has taken on a significant role in modern debates over the distribution of war powers between the Executive and Legislative branches in the US.

* Legislative: The bicameral Federal Assembly, made up of the 450-member State Duma and the 166-member Federation Council, adopts federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse and the power of impeachment of the President.

Hong Kong, a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, has a unicameral Legislative Council.

While the Legislative Councils in British Australasian and North American colonies were unelected upper houses and some of them had since abolished themselves, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong has remained the sole chamber and had in 1995 evolved into a fully elected house, yet only part of the seats are returned by universal suffrage.

The Legislative Reference Division has the important role of being the central clearing house across the federal government for proposed legislation or testimony by federal officials.

The Legislative power in the city is vested in the unicameral Białystok City Council (), which has 28 members.

Madhya Pradesh has a 230-seat state Legislative Assembly.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization focusing on state legislatures, also has an annual meeting attracting many legislators.

(" Legislative Yuan " 2004 ) The tendency of Taiwanese aborigines to vote for members of the pan-blue coalition, has been cited as having the potential to change the balance of the legislature.

After the 2000 election of Chen Shui-bian as president, the presidency and the Legislative Yuan were controlled by different parties which brought forth a number of latent constitutional issues such as the role of the legislature in appointing and dismissing a premier, the right of the president to call a special session of the legislature, and who has the power to call a referendum.

The task of changing the national borders now requires a constitutional amendment passed by the Legislative Yuan and ratified by a majority of all eligible ROC voters, which the PRC has implied would constitute grounds for military attack.

The government of each province has three branches ( Executive, Legislative and Judiciary ).

Other than that, Buenos Aires, as the provinces, has its own Legislative Branch ( a unicameral Legislature ) and elect deputies and senators as representatives to the National Congress.

Of the 99 state legislative chambers in the United States ( two for each state except Nebraska, which has a unicameral legislature ), Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure governs parliamentary procedures in 70 ; Jefferson's Manual governs 13, and Robert's Rules of Order governs five.