This series is part of the Politics series A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... Politics is the process by which individuals or relatively small groups attempt to exert influence over the actions of an organization. ...
This is a list of legislatures by country, whether parliamentary or congressional, that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives with the power to legislate. In the lists below all entities included in the list of countries are included. A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Fraction is a term used in the past by Communists. ... A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ... A Congressman or Congresswoman (generically, Congressperson) is a politician who is a member of a Congress. ... Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. ... The bicameral legislature of the United States is housed in a capitol building with two wings. ... Many parliaments or other legislatures consist of two chambers: an elected lower house, and an upper house or Senate which may be appointed or elected by a different mechanism from the lower house. ... An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. ... A parliamentary system, also known as parliamentarianism (and parliamentarism in U.S. English), is distinguished by the executive branch of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support of the parliament, often expressed through a vote of confidence. ... A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. ... A parliamentary system, also known as parliamentarianism (and parliamentarism in U.S. English), is distinguished by the executive branch of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support of the parliament, often expressed through a vote of confidence. ... A presidential system, or a congressional system, is a system of government of a republic where the executive branch is elected separately from the legislative. ... Assembly may refer to the following things: In politics, any body meeting together to discuss matters, a parliament or a legislative assembly such as the French revolutionary Legislative Assembly, or a body more designed to mediate between otherwise independent bodies, such as the United Nations General Assembly. ... Most generally, a representation is a performing of selected functions or roles of another physical or abstract object/person/organization in predefined circumstances and it is based on the consensus of the group/community involved. ... A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...
The legislatures are listed with their names in English and the name in the (most-used) native language of the country.
The names of the legislatures differ per country. Most used name seems to be National Assembly, but Parliament and Congress are often used too. The name Parliament is in some cases even used when in political science the legislature would be considered a congress. The upper house of the legislature is often named Senate. In some cases, countries use very traditional names. In germanic countries variations Thing (e.g. Folketing) are used. A thing or ting was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free men of the community and presided by lawspeakers. A variant is the use of the word Tag or Dag (e.g. Bundestag, used because things were held at daylight and often lasted all day. Other traditional names are the Estates General and the variations of Sejm. In Islamic countries Majlis is often included in the name. This can be translated as "Council" or "Assembly". The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... A thing or ting (Old Norse and Icelandic: þing; other modern Scandinavian: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free men of the community and presided by lawspeakers. ... The Folketing, or Folketinget, is the name of the national parliament of Denmark. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ... The word States-General, or Estates-General, refers in English to : the Etats-G raux of France before the French Revolution the Staten-Generaal of the Netherlands. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the Quran, its principal scripture, whose followers, known as Muslims (مسلم), believe God (Arabic: الله ) sent through revelations to Muhammad. ... Majlis is an Arabic term used to describe various types of formal legislative assemblies in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to Islamic countries. ...
