Kindreds are usually grassroots groups which may or may not be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite.

Curule Aediles were elected by the Tribal Assembly, usually while under the presidency of a Roman Consul.

This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.

The General Assembly may take action on maintaining international peace and security if the United Nations Security Council is unable, usually due to disagreement among the permanent members, to exercise its primary responsibility.

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.

Each region has its own elected Regional Assembly ( krajské zastupitelstvo ) and hejtman ( usually translated as hetman or " president ").

On several occasions in Barbadian history, no party has had a majority in the House of Assembly and thus one party, usually the largest, forms a minority government.

* MUTA is also an abbreviation in the United States Army Reserve for a " Multiple Unit Training Assembly " ( multiple refers not to multiple units but the multiple pay periods ( usually four ) for which reserve component soldiers receive credit for attending Battle Assembly )

Each province has its own unicameral legislature, with each member usually known as a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ), although in certain provinces they carry other titles: Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in Ontario ; Member of the National Assembly ( MNA ) in Quebec (); or Member of the House of Assembly ( MHA ) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

As a rebuttal to Resolution 194 being used in support, opponents note that General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding and usually have no force as international law.

General Assembly is usually held in some honorary or prestigious location, such as the host country's Houses of Parliament or the main hall of the City Council.

General Assembly resolutions usually require a simple majority ( 50 percent of all votes plus one ) to pass.

The Prime Minister, then, must be approved by the National Assembly and usually reflects the choice of the popular vote.

Likewise, while prime ministers are usually chosen from amongst the ranks of the National Assembly, on rare occasions the President has selected a non-officeholder because of their experience in bureaucraty or foreign service, or their success in business management — Dominique de Villepin, for example, served as prime minister from 2005 to 2007 without ever having held elected office.

Typically the Legislative Assembly was partially or wholly elected by popular vote ; this was usually in contrast with the other chamber of the legislature, called the Legislative Council, whose membership was generally either nominated by the Governor, or indirectly elected.

Members of a Legislative Assembly in a Commonwealth country are usually referred to as a " Member of the Legislative Assembly ", commonly abbreviated as MLA ; however, in Canada, members of the province of Ontario's Legislative Assembly are known as a " Member of the Provincial Parliament " ( MPP, Ontario ).

" Each district is led by a District Superintendent, who is usually elected by delegates from each local church in an annual meeting called the District Assembly.

Other acts that the Curiate Assembly voted on were mostly symbolic and usually in the affirmative.

The president of the Century Assembly was usually a Consul ( although sometimes a Praetor ).

The Chief Minister performs many of the roles that a state governor normally holds in the context of a state, however the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly gazettes the laws and summons meetings of the Assembly.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is appointed by the Administrator, who in normal circumstances will appoint the head of whatever party holds the majority of seats in the legislature of the territory ( in the Northern Territory, the Legislative Assembly ).

The place of his birth currently holds the Nevis Island Assembly Chambers and the Museum of Nevis History.

The Palestine Liberation Organization is considered by the Arab League and by the United Nations to be the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and holds a permanent observer seat in the United Nations General Assembly.

The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.

At present, the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi holds about 75 % of the seats in the Assembly.

Cuba has an elected national legislature, the National Assembly of People's Power ( Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular ), which has 614 members, elected every 5 years and holds brief sessions to ratify decisions by executive branch.

The General Assembly building holds the General Assembly Hall which has a seating capacity of 1, 800.

In the Fourth Assembly, she holds the position of Deputy Minister for Children & Social Services, with her responsibilities amongst others being childcare, child trust funds and parenting programmes.

The party holds a majority of seats in the 19th Assembly, lasting from 2012 to 2016.

Fidesz holds 227 of these seats, giving it an outright majority in the National Assembly by itself.

In the National Assembly of Gabon it holds 86 of 120 seats, and in the Senate of Gabon it holds 54 of 91 seats.

It is the largest opposition party in the Bahamas and as of the general election held on 7 May, 2012, holds 9 of the 41 seats in the Bahamas House of Assembly.

Hon. Owen Arthur, the BLP holds nine out of 30 seats in the House of Assembly as of January 2008.

* June 20-The Northwest Territories holds its first general election ; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected.

Once one of the largest political parties in Serbia, the SRS lost all of its seats in the 2012 parliamentary elections, although it still holds 17 seats in the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija and 5 seats in the Assembly of Vojvodina.

When sitting in Richmond, the General Assembly holds sessions in the Virginia State Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 and expanded in 1904.

In 1957, the Indiana General Assembly passed a law to make the peony the state flower of Indiana, a title which it holds to this day.

He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List.

The Premier normally holds a seat in the Legislative Assembly, being elected in one of the electoral constituencies of the Province.

The Governor normally acts only on the advice of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands, which is composed of three Members of the Legislative Assembly elected by the Assembly to serve on the Council every year, the Chief Executive, the Director of Finance and the Governor, who acts as presiding officer.

The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution.

The Assembly could offer only feeble resistance.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

Proceedings may only be initiated by the Assembly of the Republic, upon a motion subscribed by one fifth and a decision passed by a two-thirds majority of all the Members of the Assembly of the Republic in full exercise of their office.

In the event, only a London Assembly ( and directly elected Mayor ) was established.

When the Commune sent gangs into prisons to arbitrarily adjudicate and butcher 1400 victims, and then addressed a circular letter to the other cities of France, inviting them to follow this example, the Assembly could offer only feeble resistance.

In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front ( previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front ) appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition.

The General Assembly cannot make binding resolutions, only ' recommendations ', but through its adoption of the " Uniting for Peace " resolution ( A / RES / 377 A ), of 3 November 1950, the Assembly declared that it has the power to authorize the use of force, under the terms of the UN Charter, in cases of breaches of the peace or acts of aggression, provided that the Security Council, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, fails to act to address the situation.

In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).

Although the only announced candidate for the presidency of the republic, the National Assembly elected him by the second narrowest margin in Lebanese history ( 57 votes out of 92 ) on August 23, 1982 ; most Muslim members of the Assembly boycotted the vote.

The report passed 42 – 1 in the Assembly in 1933 ( only Japan voting against ), but instead of removing its troops from China, Japan withdrew from the League.

A federal republic was established in May 2008, with only four members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly voting against the change, which ended 240 years of royal rule in Nepal.

In 1905 the position was given some official recognition when the " Prime Minister " was named in the order of precedence, outranked, among non-royals, only by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Lord Chancellor.

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.

The only thing that the king could not do without the approval of the Senate and Curiate Assembly was to declare war against a foreign nation.

The Curiate Assembly ’ s previous vote only determined who was to be king, and had not by that act bestowed the necessary power of the king upon him.

According to Mathiez, they “ touched only with trepidation and reluctance the regime established by the Constituent Assembly ” so as not to interfere with the early accomplishments of the Revolution.

The Permanent Assembly for the Defense of Life and Territorial Control has stated that the armed conflict " is not only part of one or two areas, it is a problem of all the indigenous people.