Cortes Gerais
General Courts Cortes Gerais | |
|---|---|
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Champer of Peers Chamber of Deputies |
| History | |
| Founded | 1822 |
| Disbanded | 1910 |
| Leadership | |
First President of the Chamber of Peers | Nuno Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo, 6th Duke of Cadaval |
Last President of the Chamber of Peers | Gonçalo Pereira da Silva de Sousa e Menezes, 3rd Count of Bertiandos |
First President of the Chamber of Deputies | Father Francisco de São Luís Saraiva |
Last President of the Chamber of Deputies | José Capelo Franco Frazão, 1st Count of Penha Garcia |
| Seats | 90 Peers of the Realm 148 Deputies of the Nation |
| Meeting place | |
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| São Bento Palace Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal | |
The Cortes Gerais (Portuguese:General Courts) were the legislature of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Constitutional Monarchy period.[1]The Cortes were established by provision of the 1822 Portuguese Constitutional Charter as a unicameral parliament.[1] However the Constitutional Charter of 1826 reformed the Cortes as a bicameral legislature, with the Chamber of Most Worthy Peers of the Kingdom as its upper house and the Chamber of the Lords Deputies of the Portuguese Nation as its lower house.[1]
The name of the legislature originates from the traditional Portuguese Cortes, the parliament convening the three estates during the absolute monarchy.
History
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References
- ^ a b c Assembly of the Republic, A Monarquia Constitucional (1820-1910) (in Portuguese), Lisbon