the bicameral legislature in 28 states of the US the lower chamber of the bicameral state legislatures in several Commonwealth countries, such as Australia the unicameral legislature in most Canadian provinces any assembly with legislative powers
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Leg′islative Assem′bly, [Fr. Hist.]
- World Historythe legislature of France 1791–92.
'legislative assembly' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Assembly
- European Parliament
- House of Assembly
- Iceland
- MLA
- Reichstag
- Volksraad
- assemblyman
- assemblyperson
- assemblywoman
- assize
- attribution
- boule
- center
- centre
- concurrent resolution
- congress
- convocation
- council
- deliberative
- deputy
- diet
- docket
- duma
- filibuster
- first reading
- hung
- joint resolution
- left
- legislative
- moderator
- plenum
- press gallery
- private member
- reading
- reconsider
- right
- rise
- second chamber
- second reading
- senate
- speaker
- steering committee
- thing
- third reading
- town meeting
- unicameral