Diet of Edury

The Diet of the Commonwealth (ytrfe) is the legislative body in Edury, holding the supreme legislative competence in the Commonwealth. It is bicameral, made up of the Senate as the upper house, and the Assembly as the lower house. Each house meets in a chamber in the Palace of the Republic in Godenhaven.

The Assembly is the house in which legislation originates, where the Lord-Magistrate sits when sitting in legislative session, and the house which sets the government budgets. It is made up of 200 or more regular members, and the Lord-Magistrate, who sits as the Assemblyman-at-Large. Each Assembly-person elected in a mixed-member proportional preferential system, where constituents vote for both local representatives and elect parties. The Assembly is filled first by approximately 100 members who represent districts of 300,000 people, and are then filled with party-appointed members to match the percentage each party received in the partisan election.

The Senate approves legislation sent to them by the Assembly, sits with the Assembly in joint sessions to approve appointments to Cabinet, and confirms treaties on the advice of Cabinet and the Assembly. It's members are elected in multi-member preferential districts, with each member representing 600,000 people. The districts are drawn along cultural and geographic lines, and the amount of members each one elects is changed every 10 years.

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The Assembly
The Great and Noble Assembly of Burgesses (ED: Ðe Great and Rightwise Ledemeet of Boroughmen), is the lower house of the Diet. Referred internationally as simply the "Assembly", it is the primary organ of the legislature. Legislation is introduced and voted on in the Assembly, from which it is sent to the Senate. Members of the Assembly are referred to as "burgesses" (ED: Boroughmen).