This avoided the need for the proposals to be passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly where cross-party support for the changes did not exist.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

There is a history of political controversy within organized US Ásatrú, mostly surrounding the question of how to deal with such adherents as place themselves in a context of the far right and white supremacy, notably resulting in the fragmentation of the Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.

Mordecai Waxman, a leading figure in the Rabbinical Assembly, writes that " Reform has asserted the right of interpretation but it rejected the authority of legal tradition.

The aristocrat Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès and the abbé Jean-Sifrein Maury led what would become known as the right wing, the opposition to revolution ( this party sat on the right-hand side of the Assembly ).

The Assembly abolished all internal trade barriers and suppressed guilds, masterships, and workers ' organisations: any individual gained the right to practice a trade through the purchase of a license ; strikes became illegal.

" The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) and Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with either faction.

The Constitutional Council shall be consulted with regard to such measures. Parliament shall sit as of right. The National Assembly shall not be dissolved during the exercise of such emergency powers. After thirty days of the exercise of such emergency powers, the matter may be referred to the Constitutional Council by the President of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, sixty Members of the National Assembly or sixty Senators, so as to decide if the conditions laid down in paragraph one still apply.

The open-minded Gabriel Narutowicz was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, but deemed not pure enough by the nationalist right wing, was assassinated.

The Legislative Assembly consisted of about 165 Feuillants ( constitutional monarchists ) on the right, about 330 Girondists ( liberal republicans ) in the center, a vocal group of Jacobins ( radical revolutionaries ) on the left, and about 250 deputies unaffiliated with any of those factions.

That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them.

## Carrying out research projects on the right to development and preparing substantive outputs for submission to the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and treaty bodies ;

This classification is comparatively recent ( it was not used by Aristotle or Hobbes, for instance ), and dates from the French Revolution era, when those members of the National Assembly who supported the republic, the common people and a secular society sat on the left and supporters of the monarchy, aristocratic privilege and the Church sat on the right.

On 14 December 1988, following an outcry from his 13 December General Assembly speech, Yasser Arafat called a press conference in Geneva to clarify his earlier statement by specifically mentioning the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to exist in peace and security, including the State of Palestine, Israel, and their neighbours.

The National Assembly shall convene as of right on the second Thursday following its election.

Under the kings, the Senate and Curiate Assembly had very little power and authority ; they were not independent bodies in that they didn't possess the right to meet together and discuss questions of state at their own will.

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declared freedom from slavery is an internationally recognized human right.

On 14 December, 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 ( XV ) under titled Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples provided for the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples in providing an inevitable legal linkage between self-determination and its goal of decolonisation, and a postulated new international law-based right of freedom also in economic self-determination.

An attempt sponsored by Spain and Argentina to qualify the right to self-determination in cases where there was a territorial dispute was rejected by the UN General Assembly, which re-iterated the right to self-determination was a universal right.

In 1966, the General Assembly passed resolution 2145 ( XXI ) which declared the Mandate terminated and that the Republic of South Africa had no further right to administer South-West Africa.

A total of 34 FN deputies entered the Assembly after the 1986 elections ( the only legislative elections held under proportional representation ), which were won by the right wing, bringing Jacques Chirac to Matignon in the first cohabitation government ( that is, the combination of a right-wing Prime minister, Chirac, with a socialist President, Mitterrand ).

Freundel Stuart, and his Cabinet ; ( Parliament ) as legislature, divided into two chambers ( Senate and House of Assembly ), and an independent judiciary.

Recent examples of this trend include the conversion of all public transport in the city of Delhi from Diesel engines to CNG engines on the basis of the orders of the Delhi High Court ; the monitoring of forest use by the High Courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that there is no unjustified loss of forest cover ; and the directions mandating the disclosure of assets of electoral candidates for the Houses of Parliament and State Assembly.

The Prime minister and the government are responsible to the lower-house of Parliament, the National Assembly.

The Parliament of the third republic is also bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate.

Defoe being a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

Leading Fifth Monarchists also had an influence on Oliver Cromwell, as it was Thomas Harrison's idea to introduce the Nominated Assembly ( Barebones Parliament ) as a body of religious men.

Fine Gael's MEPs sit with the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Committee of the Regions.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

Convention dictates, that the governor must draw from the Parliament an individual to act as Premier, who is also capable of forming government — in almost all cases the Member of Parliament who commands the confidence of the Legislative Assembly.

In May the German National Assembly ( the Frankfurt Parliament ) met in Frankfurt to draw up a national German constitution.

::: The President of the Republic may, after consulting the Prime Minister and the Presidents of the Houses of Parliament, declare the National Assembly dissolved.

In October 1999, the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), which consists of the 500-member Parliament plus 200 appointed members, elected Abdurrahman Wahid, commonly referred to as " Gus Dur " as President, and Megawati Sukarnoputri as Vice President, for 5-year terms.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation ; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish party in the previous year.

On October 4, 1966, the Kingdom of Lesotho attained full independence, governed by a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral Parliament consisting of a Senate and an elected National Assembly.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly.

* 1999 – First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.

Such systems, or variations of them, are used in parts of the United Kingdom ( the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly ), Germany, Lesotho, Mexico, Bolivia and New Zealand.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

* Switzerland, where the headship of state is collectively vested in the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, although there is also a President of the Confederation, who is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Federal Assembly ( the Swiss Parliament ) for a year ( constitutional convention mandates that the post rotates every New Year's Day ).

Lebanese Parliament | Assembly of Deputies, The Parliament Building of Lebanon.