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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
A deliberative assembly is a group of individuals who deliberate and use parliamentary procedure to make decisions.
In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a "deliberative assembly", and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.[1][2] Merriam-Webster's definition excludes legislatures.[3]
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised by Henry Martyn Robert describes the following characteristics of a deliberative assembly:[4]
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised identifies several types of deliberative assemblies.
A mass meeting is a meeting open to all individuals in a sector of the population who are interested in deliberating about a subject proposed by the meeting's sponsors. Examples include meetings to discuss common political concerns or community interests, or meetings to form a new society.[5]
A local assembly of an organized society is a membership meeting of a local chapter or branch of a membership organization.[6] Examples include local chapter meetings of organizations like the Sierra Club.
A convention is a meeting of delegates who represent constituent units of a population. Conventions are not permanently established bodies, and delegates are normally elected for only one term. A convention may be held by an organized society, where each local assembly is represented by a delegate.[7]
A legislative body is a legally established public lawmaking body that consists of representatives chosen by the electorate. Examples include parliaments, state legislatures, and city councils.[8]
A board is an administrative, managerial, or quasi-judicial body. A board derives its power from an outside authority that defines the scope of its operations. Examples include an organized society's or company's board of directors and government agency boards like a board of education.[9]
A committee is a body of persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised does not consider a committee itself to be a deliberative assembly.[10]
A member of a deliberative assembly has the right to attend meetings and make and second motions, speak in the debate, and vote.[11] Organizations may have different classes of members (such as regular members, active members, associate members, and honorary members), but the rights of each class of membership must be defined (such as whether a "member" in a class has the right to vote).[11][12] There may also be ex officio members or persons who are members under some other office or position they hold. Ex officio members have the same rights as other members.[13]
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A deliberative assembly is a group of individuals who deliberate and use parliamentary procedure to make decisions.
In politics, a diet ( DY-ət) is a formal deliberative assembly or legislature. The term is used for some assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag, the Federal Diet.
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; French: Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is the legislative chamber vested with the law-making authorities and the oversight of the Government of Ontario, the provincial government of the Canadian province Ontario. It consists of 124 members, known as members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs), elected by Canadian citizens residing in geographical divisions known formally as electoral districts. The assembly meets at the Ontario Legislative Building, its home since 1892 located at Queen's Park in the provincial capital of Toronto. Most of the current members of the assembly were elected in the most recent general election held in February 2025. Formally, the Legislature of Ontario, as in the institution formally vested with the relevant legislative and oversight authorities, is a unicameral legislature consists of two elements: the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario as the representative of the King of Canada in Ontario, and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Bills passed by the legislative assembly come into effect when they are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor. Given the legislature's unicameral design and the lieutenant governor's limited formal discretionary authority over government matters, the assembly in office is in practice the legislature, and therefore is often referred to as such. It is also often referred to as the Ontario Provincial Parliament due to the members' formal title as MPPs. The Government of Ontario operates as a Westminster-style parliamentary government in which voters indirectly elect the government through the MPPs elected for individual electoral districts using a first-past-the-post system. The premier of Ontario (the province's head of government) holds office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the assembly, by convention (but not necessarily) sitting as an MPP themselves and leading the largest party or a coalition in the assembly. The largest party not forming the government is known as the Official Opposition, its leader being recognized as the Leader of the Opposition. The legislative assembly is the second largest Canadian provincial deliberative assembly by number of members after the National Assembly of Quebec. Owing to the location of the Legislative Building on the grounds of Queen's Park, the metonym Queen's Park is often used to refer to both the provincial government and the legislative assembly.
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (French: Assemblée législative de la Colombie-Britannique) is the deliberative assembly of the Legislature of British Columbia, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The legislature also includes the lieutenant governor of British Columbia. The assembly has 93 elected members and meets in Victoria. Members are elected from provincial ridings and are referred to as members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Bills passed by the assembly are given royal assent by the lieutenant governor in the name of the King of Canada. The current legislature is the 43rd Parliament. The most recent general election was held on October 19, 2024. Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly are broadcast by Hansard Broadcasting Services.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.
