States General, also spelled States-General, Dutch Staten-Generaal, body of delegates representing the United Provinces of the Netherlands (Dutch Republic; 1579 1795).
Tells how this procedure was ignored, electing a mostly new body of delegates and first secretary.
It is now the capital of Serbia, a country that has not joined the body.Some 600 delegates, most of them from Africa, Asia and Latin America (the isolated autocracy of Belarus is the only European member), listened to speeches under giant stylised pictures of communist partisans' wartime victories.
The new union's supreme powers were vested in a legislative body, the Convention of Delegates (Zjazd Delegatów).
The AMA has invited a representative of the American Osteopathic Association to sit as a voting member in the AMA legislative body, the house of delegates.
Shortly after, Lewis called the strike vote, and the union's democratic body, the House of Delegates, decided that if the two parties could not reach an agreement up until about 45 days after an arbitrator's report -- expected sometime in July -- all the public school teachers in the union would walk out.
At its recent annual meeting, the MLA devoted a sizable portion of its Delegate Assembly meeting to the topic (the Delegate Assembly is the representative body of the association).
It neither added nor subtracted any powers from those that the main body of the Constitution had already "delegated" to the federal government, or "prohibited" to the states, or "reserved" to the people.
The executive body of the association is elected by delegates from the congregations at meetings that are held at least once every three years.
The Council was the predecessor of the Assembly of Delegates and the original popular legislative body of the Association.
