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Legislature
- English(1) Both Houses shall consist of elected members, representative of all the people.
(2) The number of the members of each House shall be fixed by law. (Art. 43) - Japanese1 両議院は、全国民を代表する選挙された議員でこれを組織する。
2 両議院の議員の定数は、法律でこれを定める。 (第43条)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) of Pakistan consisting of the President and two Houses to be known respectively as the National Assembly and the Senate. (Art. 50)
- Urduپاکستان کی ایک مجلس شوریٰ (پارلیمنٹ) ہو گی جو صدر اور دو ایوانوں پر مشتمل ہو گی جو بالترتیب قومی اسمبلی اور سینٹ کے نام سے موسوم ہوں گے۔ (آرٹیکل ۵۰ )
Legislature
- EnglishNo person shall be a Senator unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, and, on the day of the election, is at least thirty-five years of age, able to read and write, a registered voter, and a resident of the Philippines for not less than two years immediately preceding the day of the election. (Art. VI, Sec. 3)
- FilipinoHindi dapat maging Senador ang sino mang tao matangi kung siya ay katutubong iniaanak na mamamayan ng Pilipinas at, sa araw ng halalan, tatlumpu't limang taong gulang man lamang, nakababasa at nakasusulat, rehistradong botante, at naninirahan sa Pilipinas sa loob ng panahong hindi kukulangin sa dalawang taon kagyat bago sumapit ang araw ng halalan. (Art. VI, Seksyon 3)
Legislature
- EnglishAl-Shoura Council shall consist of forty-five Members thirty of whom shall be elected by direct, general secret ballot; and the Emir shall appoint the remaining fifteen Members from amongst the Ministers or any other persons. … (Art. 77)
- Arabicيتألّف مجلس الشّورى من 45 عضوا. يتمّ انتخاب ثلاثين منهم عن طريق الاقتراع العام السرّي المباشر، ويعيّن الأمير الأعضاء الخمسة عشر الآخرين من الوزراء أو غيرهم. ... (المادّة 77)
Legislature
- EnglishIn conformity with the Constitution legislative power shall be vested in the Amir and the National Assembly. (Art. 51)
- Arabicالسلطة التشريعية يتولاها الأمير ومجلس الأمة وفقاً للدستور. (المادّة 51)
Legislature
- English
1. There shall be a Parliament for Bhutan in which all legislative powers under this Constitution are vested and which shall consist of the Druk Gyalpo, the National Council and the National Assembly.
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3. The election of the members of Parliament shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Laws of the Kingdom.
… (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་ལུ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཅིག་ཡོད་དགོ་མི་འདི་ལུ་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ཁྲིམས་ བཟོའི་ དབང་ཚད་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དེ་ནང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་བཅས་ཚུདཔ་ཨིན།
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༣) སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གི་བཙག་འཐུ་འདི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ ཀྱི་དགོངས་དོན་དང་འཁྲིལ་ དགོ།
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