The new parliaments and assemblies set up in Scotland, Wales and (if it is ever able to start work) Northern Ireland have not had time to make their presence felt.
In general, AVIC joint ventures and subsidiaries make parts and assemblies for engines, avionics, aircraft wings and tails, nose cones, flight decks, landing gear, fuel systems, hydraulics and the fuselage itself.
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Britain will discover that it has a constitutional court in the form of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, an obscure body that will be called upon to adjudicate the inevitable and possibly bitter tests of strength between the various parliaments and assemblies.
The government has already changed the voting system for European elections and will introduce some form of proportional representation for the polls for the Scottish and Welsh assemblies and the London mayor.
The eventual outcome depends entirely on how politicians and voters react to the new assemblies, and how those assemblies behave towards the Westminster Parliament.
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Jones says it is very early days and future assemblies will be less about him and more about the experiences of congregation members.
The chancellor must also contend with the opinions of state governor, city and state assemblies, parents, the teachers' union, and the school system's own 3, 700-person bureaucracy in its Brooklyn headquarters.
They object to being given a quota of seats in parliament and in local assemblies, and seek an end to separate electorates.
The news from Pakistan following this week's elections for the national and provincial assemblies tentatively is positive for a country awash in dread of escalating terrorist violence and political stalemate.
If, however, something close to a fully federal system has emerged, with real power and legitimacy devolved to regional assemblies and mayors, and with a more proportional electoral system for the Commons, then a powerful upper house may come to seem not only unnecessary but dangerous, for it would risk gridlock.
So Mr Hague is stuck with promising to keep the Scottish and Welsh assemblies.
He wants to get himself re-elected president by an electoral college of the current national and state assemblies.
In addition to local-government, European and parliamentary contests, the parties now have to fight elections to the Scottish and Welsh assemblies.
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The 1979 referendums on Scottish and Welsh assemblies, for example, took place after Parliament had debated a bill to set them up.
Elections to the national and provincial assemblies take place every five years.
Thursday marked the end of the term for Pakistan's parliament and provincial assemblies, which are scheduled to dissolve by November 20, according to Musharraf.
Consider the two sets of referendums for Scottish and Welsh assemblies.
He has taken it from a small, almost fringe group into a serious political force with real power in local councils and the Welsh and Scottish assemblies.
Pakistan chooses a new parliament and provincial assemblies on Monday.
But the Gilanis are still a powerful political family, with the two sons standing in elections to the provincial and national assemblies, the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad reports.
Equally controversially, he also intends to seek re-election from Pakistan's sitting national and provincial assemblies, now in their final year, instead of waiting for new elections to these bodies.
Since the devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, and to the Northern Irish and Welsh assemblies, the West Lothian question has frequently returned to the fore.
Colonial assemblies and numerous townships had been penning statements and declarations months before the one we celebrate each Fourth of July.
The report also said General Musharraf appeared to be consolidating his power by making himself president while dissolving assemblies and the Senate.
The talk is that things will get harder for the banks after the elections for local assemblies and the Tokyo governorship in April.
The assembly will consist of 500 members of parliament plus 135 representatives chosen by provincial assemblies and 65 members of various bodies, such as women's and religious groups.
At least 100 Pakistani opposition lawmakers have resigned as a sign of solidarity, but their moves are not expected to affect Saturday's vote by parliament and four provincial assemblies.
Should the bill become law, Parliament will have put itself in "the very odd and retrogressive situation of being less open than the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies" he continued.
The 65-page document, signed in Belfast in 1998, led to the Northern Ireland assembly and executive being set up, new cross-border institutions involving the Irish Republic and a body linking devolved assemblies across the UK with Westminster and Dublin.
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