federal assembly

In Germany, the president, who has only limited power in this mostly ceremonial post, doesn't get elected by popular vote but by the federal assembly.

German Coalition Nominates New President 2010

Secessionist sources in Mutsamudu, the main town on Anjouan, said separatists set fire Friday in the western village of Bimbini to the house of Nidhoim Attoumane, the minister of administrative reform, decentralisation, labour and relations with the federal assembly.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

The chief executive authority is deputed to a federal council consisting of seven members elected for three years by the federal assembly, and having at their head a president and vice-president, who are the first magistrates of the republic.

Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862

There is also a federal tribunal, having similar functions to those of the supreme court of the United States of America, consisting of nine members elected for six years by the federal assembly.

Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862

In the federal assembly, Wurtemberg and Bavaria, most particularly, voted in favor of the Hanoverians.

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

The governments were bound not to tolerate within their jurisdiction aught contrary to the resolutions passed by the federal assembly, and to call the whole power of the confederation to their aid if unable to enforce obedience; nay, in cases of urgency, the confederation reserved to itself the right of armed intervention, undemanded by the governments.

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835