Sentence examples for composed of deputies from inspiring English sources

Legislative power lay with a "customs parliament" (Zollparlament) composed of deputies directly elected by popular vote, and, like the council, taking decisions by a majority vote.

From the 12th century until the French Revolution in 1789, the Béarnais had a form of representative government with cours plénières ("plenary courts") composed of deputies from the three estates (nobility, clergy, people).

Composed of deputies elected from Paris and other cities, the Montagnards depended on the support of the petty bourgeoisie and the sansculottes (extreme radical revolutionaries, initially from the poorer classes of Paris) and were closely associated with the Jacobin Club of Paris.

The chamber of deputies was composed of 100 deputies, in 1810 increased to 166.

The Assembly is a unicameral legislature composed of 120 deputies directly elected by voters for four-year terms.

Composed of the deputies representing Paris and formally headed by General Louis-Jules Trochu, the new government's most forceful member was Léon Gambetta, hero of the radical republicans.

The Court of Justice of the Republic, composed of six deputies, six senators and three appeal-court judges, was set up in part to remedy this.There were always, however, doubts about the court's impartiality and legitimacy.

The National Assembly is composed of 577 deputies who are directly elected for a term of five years in single-member constituencies on the basis of a majority two-ballot system, which requires that a runoff take place if no candidate has obtained the absolute majority on the first ballot.

After the Union of Lublin in 1569 it was composed of 170 deputies (Polish, singular: poseł, representing and elected by a local sejmik).

Chafin had formed a small army of several hundred volunteers, composed of his deputies, mine guards, and members of the Logan County middle class, and had begun to train them in June.

The initial 100 was composed of 60 deputies (after 1810, 100) elected from the ranks of the nobility (szlachta) during the sessions of the local parliaments (sejmiks), and 40 non-noble deputies (after 1810, 66), as well as members of the Council of State.