At the present time the Chambers of Commerce, both at Singapore and at Pinang, are granted representation on the Council.
After it was granted a communal magistracy (1185) and citizens' charter (1195), and the guilds were granted representation on the city council (1303), there was a struggle for power between the guilds and the nobles.
In 1805 the Territory was granted representation in Congress.
The territory was granted representation in the United States Congress in 1805, and pro-slavery Benjamin Parke became the territory's first representative.
He did nonetheless agree to some electoral reform; he disfranchised several small boroughs, granted representation to large towns such as Manchester and Leeds, and increased the number of members elected by populous counties.
For instance, child parliaments have been established in many countries, like for example in Mozambique, while in others, children have been granted representation on national and regional bodies responsible for children's rights.
The queen of Spain had signed the Autonomic Charter of 1897, granting Puerto Ricans representation (voice and vote) in the courts of Spain.
The other half will be elected through a system, still to be determined, based on granting equal representation to Venezuela's 23 states and one federal district, despite major differences in population size.
A similar situation took place in 2014, when Syrian opposition groups were granted diplomatic representation in the United States.
Between their arrest and execution, Nashar, Ashraf Abu Leila and Hisham al-Aloul were not granted legal representation nor were human rights groups granted access to them in prison.
But they have suffered more or less the same languishing fate as the 2009 bill that granted voting representation to D.C. in Congress.
