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.

The Loya Jirga was organized by the interim administration of Hamid Karzai, with about 1600 delegates, either selected through elections in various regions of the country or allocated to various political, cultural, and religious groups.

Although the Republican Party and Democratic Party chapters in Puerto Rico have selected voting delegates to the national nominating conventions since the early 1900s, public interest in these processes heightened as a result of the efforts of a group of Democratic statehooders led by Franklin Delano López in 1976 to elect delegates supporting former Georgia Gov.

Many more states selected convention delegates at state party conventions, or in caucuses, which were not as open as they later became.

The plenary session is presided over by an active bishop who has been selected by committee of delegates to the Conference.

The delegates were selected not by primaries but by party organizations in each state, and as political veterans, they had a keen sense of how fast public opinion was changing.

Forty-six nations participated in the fair ( it was the first world's fair to have national pavilions ), constructing exhibits and pavilions and naming national " delegates " ( for example, Haiti selected Frederick Douglass to be its delegate ).

The institutional framework of the Party established two decades earlier had broken down almost entirely: delegates for this Congress were effectively selected by Revolutionary Committees rather than through election by party members.

Among the 500 American delegates several were selected to be members of the forum's " international council ", made up of a rather large number of organizations.

Every few years, " International Conventions " are held in selected cities, usually lasting four days ( Thursday to Sunday ), with visiting delegates from other countries.

" The Council is composed roughly of the Metropolitan, all bishops, priests, and selected lay delegates.

The Council is headed by a chairman ( the current Metropolitan ), and is composed of the OCA's chancellor, secretary, treasurer, and selected clergy and lay delegates.

Each of these conventions is attended by a number of delegates selected in accordance with the given party's bylaws.

Under the 2008 Democratic Party selection rules, adopted in 2006, delegates are selected under proportional representation, which requires a candidate have a minimum of 15 % of a state's popular vote to receive delegates.

Another six council members were selected from among 144 delegates to represent independents social groups such as teachers, lawyers, religious leaders and artists.

Seventeen National Assembly delegates selected by the ROC government to represent Taiwan Province in a photo with then President Chiang Kai-shek in 1946

It called for a Grand Council to be selected by the colonial legislatures where the number of delegates would be based on the taxes paid by each colony.

Approximately 1, 000 volunteers from around the country, selected by their chapters and groups, were delegates ; some nondelegate members also attended.

Randolph was selected as one of eleven delegates to represent Virginia at the Continental Congress in 1779, and served as a delegate through 1782.

Pursuant to this law, a new National Assembly was selected and on May 18, 1848, 809 delegates ( 585 of which were elected ) were seated at St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt to convene the Frankfurt National Assembly.

CONA brings together nearly 600 delegates selected as members of 25-30 person delegations from most of the state Y & G programs.

Also selected at the spring conference are delegates who applied through an application process to join the Massachusetts delegation at the Conference on National Affairs in Black Mountain, NC.

In such party organizations the committee would typically be made up of delegates elected at a party congress.

He was a leading opponent of the 1765 Stamp Act, chairing the committee that drafted the instructions for Maryland's delegates to the Stamp Act Congress.

The " Seven Principles " were created in committee and affirmed democratically by a vote of member congregations at an annual General Assembly ( a meeting of delegates from member congregations ).

On the first day, a committee was appointed to provide a list of delegates from each state.

In the following years, a pidgin developed as the delegates from different language backgrounds communicated with each other, and in 1973, a WFD committee (" the Commission of Unification of Signs ") published a standardized vocabulary.

The totality of delegates held referenda, and they elected the Komitato ( committee ), the highest organ of the association.

From about the time of Gomin's entrance the prisoner was inspected, not by delegates of the Commune, but by representatives of the civil committee of the 48 sections of Paris.

The staff continually inform the committees of changing events on the ground, to which the committee must respond ; in addition, individual delegates are typically allowed to take certain actions on their own, without committee approval, subject to the interpretation and agreement of the crisis staff.

In addition to acting as one of South Australia's delegates to the Board of Control from 1945 to 1980, Bradman was a committee member of the SACA between 1935 and 1986.

Each international session starts with of a two-day Teambuilding part, in which delegates get acquainted with each other and start improving the group dynamics of the committee.

In September, 1864, some French delegates again visited London with the concrete aim of setting up a special committee for the exchange of information upon matters of interest to the workers of all lands.

" While the elected delegates sent two members to England to try and induce the government to alter their decision Sir George Clerk speedily came to terms with a committee formed by the republican party and presided over by Mr J. H. Hoffman.

The group of pledged delegates, comprising delegates representing the party committee of each state, are expected to vote in accordance with the rules of their state party.

The voting Bundesrat delegates themselves rarely attend committee sessions ; instead, they delegate that responsibility to civil servants from their ministries, as allowed for in the Basic Law.

" The Rhode Island General Assembly met again at East Greenwich in September 1765, choosing delegates to the New York congress, and appointing a committee to consider the Stamp Act.

Each national committee ( NC ) or group may appoint delegates to represent it at meetings.

In response to this strained relation between the Wisconsin Synod and the other synods, the Synodical Conference elected a committee made up of Wisconsin Synod delegates and other synods ' representatives to repair relations with the Wisconsin Synod in time for the next convention in 1878.

As many elected delegates from outside the United States could not attend the General Assembly due to US immigration policies, financial or other reasons, the General Assembly authorised the creation of " a committee to address the concern that a high percentage ( as many as 40 percent in some world regions ) of non-North American / non-United States delegates are unable to attend a General Assembly ".

Each sector has a sector delegates ’ committee.