Conseil législatif

A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the British (former) colonies. However, it has also been used as designation in other (non-Commonwealth) nations. A member of a legislative council is commonly referred to as an MLC. In the United States, a legislative council has a different connotation, and means a council within a legislature which supervises nonpartisan support staff. In the British Empire, the authority under which legislative councils have been constituted has varied: some under the royal prerogative, others by acts of parliament, and some by commission and royal instructions. Particularly, unicameral or the upper house in a bicameral legislature (where traditionally many members were appointed by Governors, rather than elected) were given the designation "legislative council". In India, the Vidhan Parishad is another name for the Legislative Council in those states with bicameral legislatures. In American English, the term "legislative council" has acquired a slightly different meaning since the 1930s. It refers to a joint committee with members from both houses of the state legislature, which supervises a staff of attorneys, accountants, and researchers charged with providing strictly nonpartisan support services to the legislature or to particular committees. The concept of the legislative council was first developed in Kansas and was implemented by the Kansas Legislature in 1933. Eventually, a majority of U.S. states adopted legislative councils, but under a variety of names. Kansas still uses a legislative council, although it was converted into the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council in 1971. Legislative councils operating under that name exist in the states of Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Several states use the term "commission" for the same thing, including New Jersey and Nevada.

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Colonie de la Couronne

vignette|Carte de l'Empire britannique Une colonie de la Couronne (Crown colony), aussi appelée au colonie royale (Royal colony), est un type d'administration coloniale de l'Empire anglais et plus tard l'Empire britannique. Ces colonies étaient gouvernées par un gouverneur nommé par le monarque et plus tard par le Secrétaire d'État aux colonies. Les colonies de la Couronne ont été renommées Territoires dépendants de la Grande-Bretagne en 1981 et, depuis 2002, elles sont officiellement connues sous le nom de Territoire britannique d'outre-mer.

Titre du membre d'une législature territoriale

Dans certains pays du monde anglo-saxon, le titre du membre d’une législature territoriale est une appellation officielle ou informelle généralement employée en anglais sous la forme d’initiales post-nominales pour qualifier l’un des élus d’une assemblée législative d’une entité fédérée ou locale. La notion s’oppose au niveau supérieur au titre de membre du Parlement (Member of Parliament en anglais), habituellement réservé aux membres des législatures fédérales ou nationales avec les initiales post-nominales de « MP » (prononcé ).

Legislative assembly

Legislative assembly is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its houses. The name is used by a number of countries, including member-states of the Commonwealth of Nations and other countries. It is also used by their sub-national divisions, such as the Indian states and union territories, Australian states and Canadian provinces. Legislative assemblies in modern-day Commonwealth countries, either as national or sub-national parliaments, are in most cases an evolution of one of the legislative chambers of the previous colonial parliaments, whether the full legislature or a lower house.