| House Of Representatives |
Article Index for House Of |
Articles about House Of Representatives |
Website Links For House |
Information AboutHouse Of Representatives |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | |
| legislatures | |
|
''House of Representatives'' is a name used for Legislative Bodies in many countries. Often, the House of Representatives is the Lower House of a Bicameral legislature, with the corresponding Upper House often called a " Senate ". In other countries, the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a Unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a Parliamentary or a Presidential System . Members of a house of representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography. "The House of Representatives" is the name of the lower house of the legislature in the following countries: In the following countries it is the sole chamber in a unicameral system: In Indonesia , the ''Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat'' (DPR) is generally known in English as the "House of Representatives", as is the ''Dewan Rakyat'' of the Parliament Of Malaysia . ''House of Representatives'' is the title of most, but not all, of the State Legislature s of the component States of the United States Of America (The exceptions usually being called the "General Assembly"). Under Apartheid , the House of Representatives was the house for South Africa 's mixed race ' Coloured ' community, in the Tricameral Parliament of 1984 to 1994 . In the Austrian part Cisleithania of Austria-Hungary , the lower house the ''Abgeordnetenhaus'' is generally known in English as "House of Representatives". SEE ALSO |
|
|