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.
A staple of European and American reporting on Fifa in recent years has been the idea that its voting system (which grants equal representation to nations regardless of size, wealth and footballing pedigree) lies at the root of corrupt practices of the kind outlined by the US lawyer Michael Garcia in his report and most recently by the US Department of Justice.
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 to do so, the executor needs to apply for a "grant of representation".
Once the grant of representation is issued you can then collect assets, pay liabilities and only then distribute remaining assets.
A similar situation took place in 2014, when Syrian opposition groups were granted diplomatic representation in the United States.
