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The General Assembly consists of 35 seats. Each parish can determine how its representatives are chosen so long as they are elected by popular vote of the citizenry, though sinceall 2004of theythem have allalways used the same method: rankedof choicefirst-past-the-post voting in whichsingle-member eachdistricts parishof is treated as a singleroughly electoralequal districtpopulation. The 35 seats are required to be distributed to the parishes proportionally, with each parish granted a minimum of one Assembly Member. The seats are reapportioned each decennial census, but the number of seats given to each parish has remained unchanged since 1981 due to the proportion of populations remaining largely the same: 10 for Insulmin, 9 for Insulmag, 8 for Ferterra, 5 for Lúisnaja, and 3 for Ingenlääp. The Constitution requires all legislation that imposes a tax and all proposed Constitutional amendments to be initiated in the General Assembly.

The Assembly of States has a total of 15 seats, with three Delegates per parish. The Constitution gives parishes the choice of either appointing their Delegates by vote of the parish legislature or allowing for direct election of Delegates. Since 2004, all parishes have used direct election; the last parish to switch was Ferterra. Under the original Constitution, the Assembly of States was largely a ceremonial, consultative body that held little concrete political power. It could only delay the passage of a bill passed by the General Assembly by referring a bill back to the General Assembly up to two times in one legislative session. The only concrete authorities the Assembly of States was originally given were the requirement that it approve a proposed Constitutional amendment along with the General Assembly to place it before the parishes for ratification, and the requirement that the Assembly of States approve the appointments of Supreme Court magistrates and the Chiefs of Staff of each branch of the Armed Forces, a power it held alone and a power which it still holds today. However, the Assembly of States can now directly reject proposed legislation since a 1982 amendment.