The highest legislative body is a unicameral parliament called the State Great Hural with 76 elected members. |
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The legislative branch is the unicameral National Assembly, which has 121 members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. |
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In July 2005, a vote was held whereby 84 per cent of voters opted in favour of a unicameral legislature for Puerto Rico. |
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Most political theorists hold the view that small, homogeneous countries such as Ireland are best served by unicameral legislatures. |
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With half the vote, they took 60 of the 101 seats in the unicameral parliament. |
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Mr Coash is one of 32 legislators in Nebraska's unicameral parliament who, in a bipartisan effort, voted for a bill to ban the death penalty. |
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The legislative branch comprises a national assembly of a unicameral parliamentary model. |
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This year it is 100 years since the unicameral parliament was founded and universal suffrage established. |
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That would centralize the power of the governing party in the one house, the unicameral house. |
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The PD-L also advocated a unicameral parliament of 300 members, arguing that Romania should use the European Parliament as a model. |
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Members of the unicameral legislature, called the Assembly of the Republic, are elected for terms of four years. |
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Where the national Parliamentary system is not unicameral, Articles 1 to 7 shall apply to the component chambers. |
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It was agreed to abolish both houses, and to establish a unicameral assembly. |
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Guyana has a unicameral parliament consisting of members of the Government and opposition parties. |
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The constitution draft would create a bicameral Parliament instead of the current unicameral. |
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The Assembly is a unicameral body consisting of 108 members elected under the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation. |
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The Parliament of New Zealand is made up of the monarch and the unicameral House of Representatives. |
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Long proposed the creation of two Irish home rule entities, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, each with unicameral parliaments. |
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The members of the unicameral Parliament of Norway are chosen by popular vote for a parliamentary period of four years. |
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The parliament is a unicameral assembly with 349 members who are chosen every four years in general elections. |
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The City Council is a unicameral legislative body, representing geographical wards throughout the city. |
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The unicameral assembly is an unjust assembly. Since that date bicameralism has been a constant of the French constitutional system, with the exception of a short period of the second republic that came to an inglorious end. |
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Nebraska is the only state that has a unicameral legislative body consisting of 49 senators, who officially have no party affiliation. |
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The Governance was changed in 1970 from a bicameral to a unicameral one, with a central Congregational Board and Executive, coordinating the activities of a range of Committees. |
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He envisaged the adoption of a 150-member unicameral Congress and the reduction of the number of ministers, as well as cutting back on the material benefits for senior civil servants and senators. |
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Although unicameral, the Constitution provides for the creation of a Senate. |
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Some provinces have bicameral legislatures, while others have unicameral ones. |
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They have a governor and a unicameral legislative body elected directly by their voters. |
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Dublin City Council is a unicameral assembly of 63 members elected every five years from Local Election Areas. |
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The Assembly of the Republic is a unicameral body composed of up to 230 deputies. |
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The University Senate is a unicameral body consisting of 107 members drawn from all constituencies of the university. |
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Provincial legislatures are unicameral and operate in parliamentary fashion similar to the House of Commons. |
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The legislative assembly is a unicameral parliament elected for terms of five years. |
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Most of the cantons' legislatures are unicameral parliaments, their size varying between 58 and 200 seats. |
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It is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. |
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There have been attempts to change the government to a federal, unicameral, or parliamentary government since the Ramos administration. |
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The supreme legislative body of state authority in Sakha is a unicameral State Assembly known as the Il Tumen. |
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The exception is the unicameral Nebraska Legislature, which is composed of only a single chamber. |
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Republika Srpska, the other entity, has a unicameral parliament, known as the National Assembly. |
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The Scottish Parliament is the national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh. |
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They began in 1999, when the unicameral Welsh Assembly, created by the Government of Wales Act 1998, began its first session. |
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In unicameral parliaments, the speech is read in the one legislative chamber. |
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In a unicameral legislature, after passing third reading in the sole chamber, the bill goes on directly for promulgation. |
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In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council. |
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Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions. |
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Nebraska, with its unicameral legislature, would be an exception. |
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We kindly ask that the Legislature of the Virgin Islands be included in all future references by NCSL to unicameral legislative bodies. |
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The proposal for a unicameral parliament received over 74 per cent approval and the reduction in the number of parliamentarians was approved by 88 per cent. |
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Moldova has a unicameral Parliament consisting of 101 members elected by proportional representation in a single nation-wide constituency for a four-year term. |
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The amendments also introduce the abolition of the two-chamber legislature and the creation of a unicameral one, as well as the abolition of party-list voting for parliamentary deputies. |
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In Luxembourg's unicameral system, once Parliament has voted on the draft, it must vote a second time on the whole text after a period of at least three months. |
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After its promulgation, the House of Representatives dissolved itself in favour of a unicameral 330-member interim legislature, called the Legislative Parliament. |
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Divides parliaments by their structure: bicameral and unicameral. |
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The current head of state, who has executive authority and approves all legislation, is longstanding and for life, but his successor will be elected by the unicameral Legislative Assembly for a 5-year term. |
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Thus, a unicameral parliament or unicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of one chamber or house. |
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In the United Kingdom, the devolved Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly are also unicameral. |
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In 1999, Governor Jesse Ventura proposed converting the Minnesota Legislature into a single unicameral chamber. |
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On June 9, 2009, the Maine House of Representatives voted to form a unicameral legislature, but the measure did not pass the Senate. |
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Singapore is a unitary multiparty parliamentary republic, with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government. |
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Singapore is a parliamentary republic with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government representing constituencies. |
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The City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries. |
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The election results mean that the two parties, which are arch rivals in parliament, will have 96 against 74 representative in Bulgaria's 240-seat unicameral parliament. |
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From 1956 to 1958 the Andhra Pradesh Legislature was unicameral. |
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The country's unicameral parliament is firmly dominated by a coalition of five pro-Western parties, who together hold 302 of the 418 parliamentary seats. |
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The Parliament of Sierra Leone is unicameral, with 124 seats. |
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The National Assembly is Mauritius' unicameral legislature, which was called the Legislative Assembly until 1992, when the country became a republic. |
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The first round of staggered polling for the unicameral legislative chamber will take place 17 and 18 October, a day before the polls in Egypt on the 18 and 19 October. |
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Because the parliament of Scotland was unicameral, all members sat in the same chamber, as opposed to the separate English House of Lords and House of Commons. |
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Hong Kong, a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, has a unicameral Legislative Council. |
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During the 1930s, the Legislature of the State of Nebraska was reduced from bicameral to unicameral with the 43 members that once comprised that state's Senate. |
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Legislative functions are delegated to the unicameral Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, led by the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State. |
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The legislative branch is unicameral with 36 elected representatives. |
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Jersey's unicameral legislature is the Assembly of the States of Jersey. |
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Legislative power is vested in the unicameral Riksdag with 349 members. |
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Constitutionally, legislative power is vested with both the government and the Parliament of Norway, but the latter is the supreme legislature and a unicameral body. |
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A legislature composed of only one house is described as unicameral. |
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A legislature which operates as a single unit is unicameral, one divided into two chambers is bicameral, and one divided into three chambers is tricameral. |
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The principal advantage of a unicameral system is more efficient lawmaking, as the legislative process is much simpler and there is no possibility of deadlock. |
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The unicameral parliament presently consists of 17 elected members, and the Speaker who is not elected, but appointed by a resolution of the parliament. |
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Goa has a unicameral legislature of 40 members, headed by a speaker. |
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Legislatures are usually unicameral, consisting of only one chamber, or bicameral, consisting of two, but there are rare examples of tricameral and tetracameral legislatures. |
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The Scottish Parliament is a devolved unicameral legislature that has the power to pass statutes only affecting Scotland on matters within its legislative competence. |
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The other 15 states have used a unicameral system since their founding. |
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