House of Assembly
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House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level.
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Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible government, the House of Assembly superseded the (usually unelected) Legislative Council as the colonial legislature, often becoming the lower house.