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25-631: The Government of Assam or Assam Government abbreviated as GoAS , is the state government of the Indian state of Assam . It consists of the Governor appointed by the President of India as the head of the state, currently Lakshman Prasad Acharya . The head of government is the Chief Minister , currently Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma , who is the leader of the group that commands a majority in

50-454: A single chamber Parliament . Landtag of Prussia In the course of the 1848 Revolution , King Frederick William IV of Prussia and his Minister President Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen had agreed to call for the general election of a national assembly in all Prussian provinces . The Prussian National Assembly however was dismissed by royal decree of 5 December 1848 and the King imposed

75-521: A " Senate ". In some countries, the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system . Members of a House of Representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography. The United States House of Representatives , first convened in 1789,

100-686: A blistering protest and over the following years Bismarck's cabinet had to govern without a government budget passed by the legislature. In September 1866 the Minister President, at a peak of his power after the Battle of Königgrätz , reached the passage of the Indemnity Act ( Indemnitätsgesetz ) subsequently legalising his budget management. The balloting led to the split-off of the National Liberal Party which became

125-486: A loyal supporter of Bismarck's policies. During the German Revolution of 1918–19 the new Prussian government of Majority Social Democrats (MSPD) and Independent Social Democrats (USPD) under Paul Hirsch had the bicameral legislature abolished. A constitutional convention ( Preußische Landesversamlung ) was elected on 26 January 1919, after the introduction of equal franchise for all men and women. After

150-701: The Dewan Rakyat of the Parliament of Malaysia and the Dáil Éireann of the Irish Oireachtas are all sometimes called "House of Representatives" in English. House of Representatives is the title of most, but not all, of the lower houses of U.S. state legislatures , with the exceptions usually called " State Assembly ", " General Assembly ", or more rarely, " House of Delegates ". In Germany ,

175-866: The Landtag parliament of the city and state of Berlin , the Abgeordnetenhaus , is known in English as the House of Representatives. In Tanzania , the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar has its own legislative body, the Zanzibar House of Representatives . From 1867 until 1918, in Cisleithania , the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the lower house of the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ) parliament,

200-412: The 1848 Constitution of Prussia . It contained a catalog of fundamental rights that included freedom of religion, speech and the press, and provided for a bicameral parliament consisting of a First Chamber ( Erste Kammer , called House of Lords from 1855), as well as a Second Chamber ( Zweite Kammer , from 1855 House of Representatives) whose members were elected by universal manhood suffrage according to

225-636: The Abgeordnetenhaus was generally known in English as "House of Representatives". Since 1855 the lower house in the Landtag of Prussia was called Abgeordnetenhaus , as distinct from the upper House of Lords . In 1934, the Nebraska voters approved a unicameral legislature dissolving the House of Representatives and transferring its powers to the Senate. The Kenyan House of Representatives

250-596: The House of Representatives of the Gambia was dissolved in a coup d'état led by Yahya Jammeh . It was replaced as the legislature by the National Assembly according to the 1997 Constitution of The Gambia . The House of Representatives of Fiji was the lower chamber of Fiji 's Parliament from 1970 to 2006. It was suspended by the 2006 military coup . The 2013 Constitution abolished it and replaced it with

275-600: The Martin Gropius Bau . During the German Revolution of 1918–19 the Reichsrätekongress (national Workers' and Soldiers' Council ) held its assemblies here from 16 to 20 December 1918. On 1 January 1919, the Communist Party of Germany was founded here. Since 1993 the building has been the seat of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin : colloquially it is still named Preußischer Landtag just as

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300-489: The three-class franchise system that weighted votes based on amount of taxes paid. Both houses and the King of Prussia had the right to introduce bills, although the king remained the most powerful element in the government. The first Parliament, which met in 1849, modified the constitution in mostly minor ways. The resulting 1850 Constitution of Prussia , amended numerous times, remained Prussia's basic law until 1918. Under

325-658: The National Assembly was unicameral under the First Republic, as the first election of the House of Councillors was not held until the Second Republic was founded in 1960. Following a military coup the following year, the National Assembly was dissolved. Since its restoration in December 1963, the National Assembly has been unicameral. The House of Representatives of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka )

350-528: The Opposition This article about government in India is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Subnational legislature House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called

375-739: The failed Kapp Putsch of 1920, the assembly confirmed the first cabinet of Minister-president Otto Braun and finally adopted the new Prussian constitution on 30 November. The Preußischer Landtag was re-established as the parliament of the Free State of Prussia in 1921. The provinces were represented in the Prussian State Council , which succeeded the former Herrenhaus as a kind of upper house. The Cologne mayor Konrad Adenauer served as its president until 1933. A legislative period lasted for no longer than four years. The parliament could be dissolved early by joint resolution of

400-865: The final time. A year after coming to power in Germany, the Nazi Party passed the " Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich ," effective on 30 January 1934. Directed at replacing the German federal state with a unitary government, this law abolished the Prussian Landtag, along with all other provincial diets. In 1899, the House of Representatives ( Abgeordnetenhaus ) moved into a building on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße No. 5 (present-day Niederkirchnerstraße), close to Potsdamer Platz and situated opposite to

425-485: The military budget, which the deputies refused. Roon urged the king to appoint Otto von Bismarck as Minister President . Bismarck acted on an alleged gap in the constitution ( Lückentheorie ) and openly sidestepped any power of the purse of the Prussian representatives, saying that "not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided (...) but by iron and blood ." The assembly raised

450-721: The nearby building accommodating the Bundestag is still generally referred to as the Reichstag . The seat of the Prussian House of Lords on Leipziger Straße was inaugurated in 1904. Both buildings were built back-to-back according to plans designed by Friedrich Schulze , they intercommunicate via a common restaurant wing. Upon the Nazi Machtergreifung , the Herrenhaus building served as an annex of

475-799: The prime minister and the presidents of the Landtag and the State Council or by a plebiscite . In 1931 just such a referendum, intended to dissolve the Prussian Landtag , took place on the initiative of the "Stahlhelm" veterans' organization, with the support of the Nazi Party and the German Communist Party . The referendum failed. Landtag elections took place on 20 February 1921 , 7 December 1924 , 20 May 1928 , 24 April 1932 , and 5 March 1933 . The last Prussian Landtag convened on 22 March 1933, and again on 18 May 1933 for

500-450: The regency of Prince William I and his liberal prime minister Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern from 1858 (the "New Era"), the House of Representatives led by the newly established German Progress Party gradually developed into a serious political actor, culminating in a constitutional conflict in 1861: William I, who had just acceded to the Prussian throne, and his war minister Albrecht von Roon requested approval for an increment of

525-567: The surrender of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in 1975, a Provisional Revolutionary Government established itself in Saigon and disbanded the bicameral National Assembly consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Under apartheid , the House of Representatives was the house for South Africa 's mixed race ' Coloured ' community, in the Tricameral Parliament of 1984 to 1994. In 1994

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550-527: The unicameral Assam Legislative Assembly . The Assam Assembly is elected by universal adult suffrage for a period of five years. The Chief Minister is assisted by a Council of Ministers that he nominates, the size of which is restricted. In 2021, the National Democratic Alliance won a majority of seats in the legislature, with 75 seats, followed by Congress with 29 seats and AIUDF with 16. Ministers sworn on 10 May 2021: Leader of

575-424: Was closely patterned on the House of Commons of Great Britain . It retains features such as a speaker of the house who is the presiding officer. "The House of Representatives" currently is the name of a house of the legislature in the following countries: In the following countries it is the sole chamber in a unicameral system: The Indonesian People's Representative Council ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , DPR),

600-532: Was combined with the Senate in 1966, to form an enlarged single chamber parliament, known as the National Assembly . The Senate was re-established as an upper house following the 2010 Kenyan constitutional referendum . Under the First and Second Republics , the National Assembly of South Korea was officially bicameral, consisting of the House of Councillors and House of Representatives . In practice, however,

625-503: Was the lower chamber of the parliament established in 1947 according to the Soulbury Constitution . The 1972 First Republican Constitution of Sri Lanka replaced it with the unicameral National State Assembly . The Parliament of Sierra Leone , like its counterparts in other former British colonies, began as a Legislative Council. It was inaugurated in 1863 but was renamed the House of Representatives in 1954. Following

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