National Assembly (Republic of China)
1947–2005 electoral college and constitutional convention in the East Asian country / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The National Assembly was the authoritative legislative body of the Republic of China, from 1947 to 2005. Along with the Control Yuan (upper house) and the Legislative Yuan (lower house), the National Assembly formed the tricameral parliament of the Republic of China.
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Traditional Chinese | 國民大會 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 国民大会 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Assembly of the Nationals | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar to other electoral colleges, the National Assembly had elected the President and Vice President under the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China with the role of the constituent assembly that aimed to amend the country's constitution.
The first National Assembly was elected in November 1947 and met in Nanjing in March 1948. However, in the next year, the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China lost mainland China in the Civil War and retreated to Taiwan. The National Assembly resumed its meeting in Taipei in 1954. In the 1990s, its parliamentary powers were gradually transferred to the Legislative Yuan and direct democracy exercised by the de facto residents before constitutional amendments made it a dormant body in 2000 and de facto dissolved in 2005.