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A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected by popular vote , drawn by sortition , appointed, or some combination of these methods.
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1950 Constituent Assembly meeting. The constitution was drafted by the Constituent Assembly, which was elected by elected members of the provincial assemblies. [19] The 389-member assembly (reduced to 299 after the partition of India) took almost three years to draft the constitution holding eleven sessions over a 165-day period. [4] [18]
The members of the Constituent Assembly of India were elected by the Provincial Assemblies by a single, transferable-vote system of Proportional representation. The total membership of the Constituent Assembly was 389 of which 292 were representatives of the provinces, 93 represented the princely states and 4 were from the chief commissioner ...
The assembly had a majority of Muslim League members, with the Pakistan National Congress, the successor to the INC in the state, forming the second largest party, solely representing Hindus. Quaid-e-Azam replying to the Address by Lord Mountbatten in Constituent Assembly on 14 August 1947. The assembly was widely criticised for its incompetence.
Following independence, the Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the Constitution of India. [7] In 1950 after the constitution came into force, the Constituent Assembly of India was disbanded, [8] and succeeded by the Parliament of India, which is active to this day.
The remaking of France: the National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Hampson, Norman. Prelude to Terror: The Constituent Assembly and the Failure of Consensus, 1789–1791 (Blackwell, 1988) Tackett, Timothy. "Nobles and Third Estate in the revolutionary dynamic of the National Assembly, 1789–1790."
Constituent Assembly of Colombia; Congress of Angostura; Congress of Cúcuta; Brazilian Constituent Assembly (1988) Constituent Assembly of Costa Rica; Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir; Constituent Assembly of Turkey; Constituent Cortes; Constituent Cortes of 1820; Constituent National Assembly (Czechoslovakia) Constitutional Assembly ...