assembly

(noun)

A legislative body; e.g., the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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Examples of assembly in the following topics:

  • The Legislative Assembly

  • Establishment of the National Assembly

  • Governors and Assemblies

    • Colonial governors were appointed by the Crown, while assemblies were elected by local colonists.
    • The governor was invested with general executive powers and authorized to call a locally elected assembly.
    • In some colonies, the colonial assembly shared power with a royally appointed governor.
    • The colonial Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
    • As the Revolution drew near, colonial assemblies began forcibly ejecting their governors from office.

  • Structure of the Republic

    • There were two types of legislative assemblies.
    • The first was the comitia ("committees"), which were assemblies of all optimo jure.
    • The comitia centuriata was the assembly of the centuries (soldiers).
    • Usually a plebeian tribune would preside over the assembly.
    • This assembly passed most laws, and could also act as a court of appeal.

  • Freedom of Assembly and Petition

    • The First Amendment establishes the right to assembly and the right to petition the government.
    • Freedom of Assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend common interests .
    • Freedom of assembly and freedom of association may be used to distinguish between the freedom to assemble in public places and the freedom of joining an association, but both are recognized as rights under the First Amendment's provision on freedom of assembly.
    • The right of assembly was originally distinguished from the right to petition.
    • The right to assembly protects citizens' rights to gather together to peacefully protest.

  • The Rise of the Assemblies

    • Each colony had a system of governance including a governor, a council of officials appointed by the governor, and an elected assembly.
    • They were politically administered by a crown-appointed governor (with absolute veto power), an appointed council, and a locally elected assembly.
    • Enfranchised voters elected the General Assembly; by 1750, most free men of property could vote.
    • The Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
    • However, it is important to note that these assemblies were mostly representative of the privileged and mercantile classes.

  • Powers of the Assemblies

    • Assemblies were elected and were called the House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
    • The colonial Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
    • Taxes and government budgets originated in the Assembly.
    • Conflicts over budgets contributed to the tensions between assemblies and governors that led to the American Revolution.
    • The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.

  • The Initiation Complex and Translation Rate

    • The first step of translation is ribosome assembly, which requires initiation factors.
    • In translation, before protein synthesis can begin, ribosome assembly has to be completed.
    • In eukaryotes, several eukaryotic initiation factor proteins (eIFs) assist in ribosome assembly.
    • The ability to fully assemble the ribosome directly affects the rate at which translation occurs.
    • Discuss how eukaryotes assemble ribosomes on the mRNA to begin translation

  • Ribosomes

    • Ribosome assembly consists of transcription, translation, the folding of rRNA and ribosomal proteins, the binding of ribosomal proteins, and the binding and release of the assembly components to make the ribosome.
    • In vivo assembly of the 30S subunit has two intermediates (p130S and p230S) and the 50S subunit has three intermediates (p150S, p250S, and p350S).
    • The intermediates in the in vivo assembly are precursor rRNA which is different from in vitro which uses matured rRNA.
    • To complete the mechanism of ribosome assembly, these precursor rRNA gets transformed in the polysomes.
    • The ribosome assembles amino acids into a protein.

  • Colonial Government

    • For instance, elected bodies, specifically the assemblies and county governments, directly determined the development of a wide range of public and private business.
    • Specifically, these assemblies handled land grants, commercial subsidies, and taxation.
    • This was especially true in the perennial battles between appointed governors and the elected assembly.
    • British-appointed governors also faced various degrees of opposition and resistance over new colonial policies, which resulted in much negotiation between assemblies, voting populations, and colonial authorities.
    • This was a possible effect of the state's 1691 charter, which had particularly low requirements for voting eligibility and strong rural representation in its assembly.