The country is governed as a presidential republic with a bicameral legislature, with a portion of legislatures appointed by the military and others elected in general elections.

The legislature appointed him to the Senate in 1819 to fill the seat vacated by John J. Crittenden.

In December, was elected to the provincial legislature of Cartagena, being appointed as president of one of its sections.

The House of Nobles, the house of legislature appointed by the King, was to be elected.

By 1757 he held the office of King's Attorney, and in May 1758 the colonial legislature appointed him agent for Connecticut Colony at the English court, mainly to negotiate reimbursement for recent expenditures in the French and Indian War.

White represented Lenoir County in the state legislature, first in the North Carolina House of Commons and then in the North Carolina Senate, from the county's creation in 1792 until the legislature appointed him Secretary of State in 1798.

It created the Philippine legislature, appointed two Filipino delegates to the US Congress, extended the US Bill of Rights to Filipinos, and laid the foundation for an autonomous government.

One of the few old buildings to survive the wrecker's ball, it now houses Hong Kong's elected legislature, a body that will be ousted on July 1 and replaced by a legislature appointed by Beijing.

The original proposal from the republican leaders had called for a largely nominal legislature appointed by the republics.

The provisional legislature appointed by Beijing should not become a permanent puppet legislature.