The transfer of power from Menzies to Holt in February 1966 was smooth and unproblematic, and at the federal election later that year the electorate overwhelmingly endorsed Holt, giving the Holt-McEwen Coalition government a 41-seat majority, the largest in Australian history at the time.

Menzies transferred to federal politics in 1934, representing the United Australia Party ( UAP — the Nationalists had merged with other non-Labor groups to form the UAP during his tenure as a state parliamentarian ) in the upper-class Melbourne electorate of Kooyong.

The Swiss government has been a coalition of the four major political parties since 1959, each party having a number of seats that roughly reflects its share of electorate and representation in the federal parliament.

Padthaway is in the Tatiara District Council, the state electorate of MacKillop and the federal Division of Barker.

** Division of Adelaide, electorate in federal parliament of Australia

In June 2006 the Australian Electoral Commission ( AEC ) announced that the new federal electorate in Queensland to be created at the 2007 federal election would be named Wright in honour of her life as a " poet and in the areas of arts, conservation and indigenous affairs in Queensland and Australia ".

The federal electorate surrounding the airport is named the Division of Kingsford Smith, and includes the suburb of Kingsford.

The towns of Wentworth and Wentworth Falls, the federal Division of Wentworth, an electorate in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, the Wentworth Falls waterfall, and Wentworth Avenue which runs through the suburb of Kingston in Canberra, were named after him.

Prior to 1984, Canada was seen as having a dominant-party system led by the Liberal Party while Progressive Conservative governments therefore were considered by many of these pundits as caretaker governments, doomed to fall once the collective mood of the electorate shifted and the federal Liberal Party eventually came back to power.

Cook is the only Prime Minister up to Gough Whitlam who does not have a federal electorate named after him.

The Queensland federal electorate of Bonner was created in 2004 and was named in his honour.

* On 19 February 2007, Lawrence was the principal guest at the launch of the web publication The federal electorate of Fremantle: A history since 1901, an initiative of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library.

In the Canadian federal election, 2006, after a decade of work, the Conservatives seemed to attain their goal of being an electable " United Alternative " when they were given a minority government by the electorate.

Later Amendments address individual liberties and freedoms, federal relationships, election procedures, terms of office, expanding the electorate, ending slavery, financing government, consumption of alcohol and Congressional pay.

Bayswater contained three voting booths at the 2010 Federal Election, all located within the federal electorate of Aston.

On 21 November 2007, three days before the federal election, Kelly's husband Gary Clark was caught with four other people in the electorate of Lindsay handing out fake pamphlets purporting to be from an Islamic group ( which did not exist ), and thanking the Labor Party for supporting terrorists.

He was an advocate for federal funding towards a $ 26 million redevelopment of the Kardinia Park stadium, despite it being located outside his electorate.

On 4 December 2009 he was preselected unopposed as Labor's candidate for the federal electorate of Reid.

Pascoe Vale is located in the federal electorate of Wills.

Footscray falls within the federal electorate of Gellibrand ( currently held by the ALP's Nicola Roxon ) and the state electorate of Footscray ( currently held by the ALP's Marsha Thomson ), and the City of Maribyrnong at local level.

Most of Glen Waverley's voting booths are within the federal electorate of Bruce ( with the remainder in Chisholm ).

Toorak falls within the federal electorate of Higgins.

He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.

The reasons are obvious: ( 1 ) the state is buying in quantity, and ( 2 ) it has no federal excise or state sales tax to pay.

Congress has not clearly defined the bounds between state and federal court competence.

A careful student has suggested that `` In any new revision ( of the Judicial Code ) the legislators would do well to remember that the allocation of power to the federal courts should be limited to those matters in which their expertise in federal law might be used, leaving to the state judiciaries the primary obligation of pronouncing state law ''.

With few exceptions, Congress has not given federal courts exclusive authority to enforce rights arising under federal law.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

A veteran Jackson County legislator will ask the Georgia House Monday to back federal aid to education, something it has consistently opposed in the past.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

The channel of the river has been considerably improved by the federal government.

It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

The significant presence of visible minorities from British Columbia in both the provincial and federal spheres of government also reflects the high degree of multiculturalism that has come to be associated with Canada.

The CDN has authority to " express an opinion in instances of declaration of war and the celebration of peace " and to " express an opinion on the decreeing of a state of emergency, state of siege, or federal intervention.

According to Article 89 of the constitution, the Council of the Republic has authority to make declarations of federal intervention, a state of emergency, and a state of siege ( all security-related issues ).

The United States federal government ( as opposed to the states ) has a variant on a common law system.

The CSU currently has three ministers in the cabinet of Germany of the federal government in Berlin, while party leader Horst Seehofer serves as Minister-President of Bavaria: a position that CSU representatives have held since 1957.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.