National Assembly

The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known, if not first, National Assembly, was that established following the French Revolution in 1789, known as the Assemblée Nationale. Consequently, the name is particularly common in Francophone countries, but is also found in some Commonwealth countries.

It was also the name of the legislature during the First Republic and the Consulate, and since 1946 has been the lower house of the French parliament, first under the Fourth Republic, and from 1958, the Fifth Republic.

Table of contents

1 Name of unicameral legislature 2 Lower house of bicameral legislature 3 Name of bicameral legislature 4 Other 5 External links

Name of unicameral legislature

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Kenya
• Lebanon
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Niger
• Quebec, Canada
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Uganda
• Vietnam: The National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Úốc huy nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam)
• Wales, United Kingdom Cynulliad Genedlaethol i Gymru (National Assembly for Wales)
• Zambia

Lower house of bicameral legislature

• France
• South Africa
• Madagascar
• Namibia
• Lesotho
• Slovenia: Državni zbor
• Cambodia
• Pakistan

Name of bicameral legislature

• Jordan
• Nigeria
• Thailand

Other

• Taiwan: The National Assembly of the Republic of China (limited as a dormant constitutional convention)

See also: House of Representatives, House of Commons, Chamber of Deputies

External links

• The National Assembly of France
• The National Assembly of Quebec
• The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
• The National Assembly for Wales\n