national assembly

national assembly, name of a number of past and present constituent or legislative bodies. In France, under the constitutions of the Fourth and Fifth republics, the lower house of parliament has been called the national assembly. Usually, however, the name national assembly has been applied to provisional bodies. Often in times of crisis, when the old order dissolves through decay, war, or revolution, representatives of the people meet to work out a new order. Such was the case in the French Revolution, when members of the States-General proclaimed themselves (1789) a national assembly. The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-49 were national assemblies. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, after the downfall of Napoleon III, France again elected a national assembly, which drew up the basic constitutional laws for the Third Republic. Under the Third Republic the name national assembly applied to joint sessions of the senate and the chamber of deputies. National assemblies framed the republican Weimar constitution of Germany in 1919 and the Bonn constitution for West Germany in 1948-49. For a list of some of the chief legislative bodies of the world, see legislature.

The National Assembly is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. The best known National Assembly, and the first legislature to be known by this title, was that established during 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. In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848-1849 and 1918-1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament (Reichstag) later.

It was also the name of the legislature during France's 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.

Unicameral national legislatures

Country	Article	Local Name
Angola	National Assembly of Angola	Assembleia Nacional
Armenia	National Assembly of Armenia	Ազգային Ժողով
Azerbaijan	National Assembly of Azerbaijan	Milli Məclis
Benin	National Assembly of Benin	Assemblée Nationale
Bhutan	National Assembly of Bhutan
Bulgaria	National Assembly of Bulgaria	Народно събрание
Burkina Faso	National Assembly of Burkina Faso	Assemblée Nationale
Cameroon	National Assembly of Cameroon
Cape Verde	National Assembly of Cape Verde	Assembleia Nacional
Chad	National Assembly of Chad	Assemblée Nationale
Côte d'Ivoire	National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire
Cuba	National Assembly of People's Power	Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular
Djibouti	National Assembly of Djibouti	Assemblée Nationale
Eritrea	National Assembly of Eritrea
Gambia	National Assembly of Gambia
Guinea	National Assembly of Guinea	Assemblée Nationale
Guinea-Bissau	National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau
Guyana	National Assembly of Guyana
Hungary	National Assembly of Hungary	Országgyűlés
Kenya	National Assembly of Kenya
Kuwait	National Assembly of Kuwait	مجلس الامة
Republic of Korea (South)	National Assembly of the Republic of Korea	국회 /Gukhoe/
Laos	National Assembly of Laos
Malawi	National Assembly of Malawi
Mali	National Assembly of Mali	Assemblée Nationale
Mauritius	National Assembly of Mauritius
Nicaragua	National Assembly of Nicaragua	Asamblea Nacional
Niger	National Assembly of Niger	Assemblée Nationale
Saint Kitts and Nevis	National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis
São Tomé and Príncipe	National Assembly of São Tomé and Príncipe	Assembleia Nacional
Senegal	National Assembly of Senegal	Assemblée Nationale
Serbia	National Assembly of Serbia	Narodna skupština Srbije/Народна скупштина Србије
Seychelles	National Assembly of Seychelles
Sudan	National Assembly of Sudan
Suriname	National Assembly of Suriname
Tanzania	National Assembly of Tanzania
Togo	National Assembly of Togo	Assemblée Nationale
Turkey	Grand National Assembly of Turkey	Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi
Uganda	National Assembly of Uganda
Venezuela	National Assembly of Venezuela	Asamblea Nacional
Vietnam	National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam	Quốc hội nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam
Zambia	National Assembly of Zambia

Lower house of bicameral national legislature

Country	Article	Local Name
Algeria	National People's Assembly
Botswana	National Assembly of Botswana
Burundi	National Assembly of Burundi
Cambodia	National Assembly of Cambodia
Congo (DRC)	National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Assemblée nationale
France	National Assembly of France	Assemblée nationale
Gabon	National Assembly of Gabon
Madagascar	National Assembly of Madagascar
Mauritania	National Assembly of Mauritania
Namibia	National Assembly of Namibia
Nigeria	National Assembly of Nigeria
Pakistan	National Assembly of Pakistan	Majlis-e-Shoora
Slovenia	National Assembly of Slovenia	Državni zbor
South Africa	National Assembly of South Africa

Upper house of bicameral national legislature

Country	Article	Local Name
Tajikistan	National Assembly of Tajikistan	Majlisi Milliy

Entire bicameral legislature

Country	Article	Local Name
Afghanistan	National Assembly of Afghanistan	دملی شورا
Bahrain	National Assembly of Bahrain
Belize	National Assembly of Belize
Haiti	National Assembly of Haiti	Assemblée Nationale
Jordan	National Assembly of Jordan	Majlis al-Umma
Nigeria	National Assembly of Nigeria
Poland	National Assembly of Poland	Zgromadzanie Narodowe
Thailand	National Assembly of Thailand
Tunisia	National Assembly of Tunisia

Other

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 98%;" |- align=left |Country/Territory || Name || Notes |- | Quebec, Canada || National Assembly of Quebec
Assemblée nationale du Québec || A unicameral provincial legislative assembly |- | Iraq || National Assembly of Iraq || A constitutional convention |- | Republic of China || National Assembly of the Republic of China || defunct constitutional convention |- | Republika Srpska || National Assembly of the Republika Srpska || Narodna Skupština Republike Srpske/Народна скупштина Републике Сpпcке in the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language. Republika Srpska is an autonomous entity Bosnia and Herzegovina. |- | Wales, United Kingdom || National Assembly for Wales
Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru || Can Make Assembly Measures (Some Primary legislation) and Delegated legislation |- | Batavian Republic,
Netherlands || First National Assembly (1 March 1796 - 31 August 1797) and Second National Assembly (1 September 1797 - the coup of 22 January 1798) || |-

See also

• List of national legislatures