Legislature Totally Explained

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A Legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create, amend and ratify laws.
   Legislatures are known by many names, the most common being parliament and congress, although these terms also have more specific meanings. The main job of the legislature is to make and amend laws. In parliamentary systems of government, the legislature is formally supreme and appoints the executive. In presidential systems of government, the legislature is considered a power branch which is equal to, and independent of, the executive. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise taxes and adopt the budget and other money bills. The primary components of a legislature are one or more chambers or houses: assemblies that debate and vote upon bills. A legislature with only one house is called unicameral. A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as an upper house and a lower house, which often differ in duties, powers, and the methods used for the selection of members. Much rarer have been tricameral legislatures; the most recent existed in the waning years of white-minority rule in South Africa.
   In most parliamentary systems, the lower house is the more powerful house while the upper house is merely a chamber of advice or review.
   However, in presidential systems, the powers of the two houses are often similar or equal. In federations it's typical for the upper house to represent the component states; the same applies to the supranational legislature of the European Union. For this purpose the upper house may either contain the delegates of state governments, as is the case in the European Union and in Germany and was the case in the United States before 1913, or be elected according to a formula that grants equal representation to states with smaller populations, as is the case in Australia and the modern United States.
Lists of titles of legislatures

National

Assembleia da República — Portugal
Assembly of Albania — Albania
Bundestag — Germany
Dewan Rakyat — Malaysia
Legislative Yuan — Republic of China
Congress — United States
Cortes Generales — Spain
Eduskunta — Finland
Federal Assembly — Russia, Switzerland
Folketing — Denmark
Knesset — Israel
Majles Al-Ummah — Kuwait
Majlis Permusyawaratan Rakyat — Indonesia
Tithe an Oireachtais — Republic of Ireland
Riksdag — Sweden and Finland
Narodna Skupština — Serbia and Montenegro
Staten-Generaal — The Netherlands
Stortinget — Norway
Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State — Vatican City
Sabor — Croatia and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Riigikogu — Estonia
Nationalrat — Austria
Saeima — Latvia

Sub-National

List of state legislatures of the United States — United States
Legislature — Various, including Nebraska
General Assembly / Assembly — Various
General Court — Massachusetts and New Hampshire
House of Delegates — lower houses of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
Landtag — Germany, Austria
Canada
Legislative Assembly — All provinces and territories except:

National Assembly — Quebec
House of Assembly — Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador
Australia
Legislative Assembly - All States and Territories except:

House of Assembly - South Australia and Tasmania
Legislative Council - All States except Queensland
United Kingdom
Scottish Parliament/Pàrlamaid na h-Alba — Scotland
Northern Ireland Assembly — Northern Ireland
National Assembly for Wales — Wales

Regional

Legislative Council — Hong Kong
Legislative Assembly of Macau, Macau

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