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| last_election1 = October 5, 2014 | next_election1 = | meeting_place = Chamber of Deputies National Congress Building Brasília, Federal District, Brazil | website = (www.camara.gov.br ) }} The Chamber of Deputies ((ポルトガル語:Câmara dos Deputados)) is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil. The chamber comprises 513 deputies, who are elected by proportional representation to serve four-year terms. The current president of the Chamber is deputy Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ). == Legislatures == The Legislatures are counted from the first meeting of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate, on 6 May 1826, in the imperial era (the Chamber of Deputies met for preparatory sessions from 29 April 1826 onwards to elect its officers and conduct other preliminary business, but the Legislature was formally opened on 6 May). The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate were created by Brazil's first Constitution, the Constitution of the Empire of Brazil, adopted in 1824. The previous Constituent and Legislative Assembly of the Empire of Brazil, a unicameral National Assembly, that was convened in 1823 and that was dissolved by Emperor Pedro I before adopting a Constitution is not counted among the Legislatures. Thus, the numbering includes only the bicameral Legislatures that existed from 1826 to the present day, and includes only Legislatures elected after the adoption of the first Brazilian Constitution. In the imperial era, the national legislature was named ''General Assembly''. It was made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Senators were elected for life and the Senate was a permanent institution, whereas the Chamber of Deputies, unless dissolved earlier, was elected every four years. When Brazil became a Republic and a Federal State the model of a bicameral Legislature was retained at the Federal level, but the Parliament was renamed ''National Congress''. The National Congress is made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Both Houses have fixed terms and cannot be dissolved earlier. Under Brazil's present Constitution, adopted in 1988, Senators are elected to eight-year terms, and Deputies are elected every four years. Each Brazilian state (and the Federal District) is represented in the Senate by three Senators. Elections to the Senate are held every four years, with either a third or two thirds of the seats up for election. The number of deputies elected is proportional to the size of the population of the respective state (or of the Federal District). However, no delegation can be made up of less than eight or more than seventy seats. Thus the least populous state elects eight Federal Deputies and the most populous elects seventy. These restrictions favour the smaller states at the expense of the more populous states and so the size of the delegations is not exactly proportional to population. Elections to the Chamber of Deputies are held every four years, with all seats up for election. The numbering of the Legislatures is continuous, including the Legislatures of the imperial General Assembly and of the republican National Congress. The inauguration of a new composition of Chamber of Deputies for a four-year term of office marks the start of a new Legislature. Empire of Brazil〔(Chamber of Deputies Home Page: O Império do Brasil )〕 * 1st Legislature (1826–1829) * 2nd Legislature (1830–1833) * 3rd Legislature (1834–1837) * 4th Legislature (1838–1841) * 5th Legislature (1842–1844) * 6th Legislature (1845–1847) * 7th Legislature (1848) * 8th Legislature (1849–1852) * 9th Legislature (1853–1856) * 10th Legislature (1857–1860) * 11th Legislature (1861–1863) * 12th Legislature (1864–1866) * 13th Legislature (1867–1868) * 14th Legislature (1869–1872) * 15th Legislature (1872–1875) * 16th Legislature (1876–1877) * 17th Legislature (1878–1881) * 18th Legislature (1882–1884) * 19th Legislature (1885) * 20th Legislature (1886–1889), dissolved by the 15 November 1889 military coup that proclaimed Brazil a Republic * 21st Legislature: had already been elected to succeed the 20th legislature, but was not installed due to the proclamation of the Republic. New elections were summoned by the provisional government of the Republic in 1890. Old Republic〔(Chamber of Deputies Home Page: First Republic )〕 * 21st Legislature (1890–1891), discharged the role of Constituent Congress (1890–1891). The act that summoned the elections for the Constituent Congress and that empowered it to draft a Constitution already established that the Congress would be made up of two Houses, an elected Senate with equal representation for the Brazilian States, and a Chamber of Deputies, each State having a number of Deputies proportional to the size of its population. During the drafting of the Constitution, the Congress was to meet in joint session. The Congress was required to adopt a Constitution that conformed to the republican form of government, and that preserved the recently declared Federal model of the State. * 22nd Legislature (1891–1893) * 23rd Legislature (1894–1896) * 24th Legislature (1897–1899) * 25th Legislature (1900–1902) * 26th Legislature (1903–1905) * 27th Legislature (1906–1908) * 28th Legislature (1909–1911) * 29th Legislature (1912–1914) * 30th Legislature (1915–1917) * 31st Legislature (1918–1920) * 32nd Legislature (1921–1923) * 33rd Legislature (1924–1926) * 34th Legislature (1927–1929) * 35th Legislature (1930): dissolved by the provisional government after the 1930 Revolution. Vargas Era〔(Chamber of Deputies Home Page: The Second Republic )〕 * 36th Legislature (1933–1935), discharged the role of Constituent Assembly (1933–1934) * 37th Legislature (1935–1937), dissolved by the Estado Novo coup d'état. Legislatures elected under the Republic of 46〔(Chamber of Deputies Home Page: The Fourth Republic )〕 * 38th Legislature (1946–1950), discharged the role of National Constituent Assembly (1946). * 39th Legislature (1951–1954) * 40th Legislature (1955–1958) * 41st Legislature (1959–1962) * 42nd Legislature (1963–1967), already under the Military Regime instituted by the 1964 military coup, the legislature discharged the role of Constituent Congress (1966–1967), under a decree of the military government (AI-4, Fourth Institutional Act), that commissioned the drafting of a new Constitution. The Constitution was voted under duress. Legislatures elected under the Military Regime * 43rd Legislature (1967–1970) * 44th Legislature (1971–1975) * 45th Legislature (1975–1979) * 46th Legislature (1979–1983) * 47th Legislature (1983–1987). The Chamber of Deputies was elected under the process of gradual return to democracy. During that legislature, the last military President handed over power to the first civilian Administration, still elected indirectly, by means of an Electoral College. The 1985 Electoral College, however, was placed under no duress, and elected the Opposition candidates for President and Vice-President. After the inauguration of the civilian Administration, the 47th Legislature passed a Constitutional Amendment, empowering the next Legislature, that would convene in February 1987 after the 1986 legislative elections, to discharge the role of National Constituent Assembly, empowered to adopt a new Constitution to replace the one inheirited from the Military Regime. Legislatures elected after the restoration of civilian government ("New Republic") * 48th Legislature (1987–1991), discharged the role of National Constituent Assembly (1987–1988). * 49th Legislature (1991–1995) * 50th Legislature (1995–1999) * 51st Legislature (1999–2003) * 52nd Legislature (2003–2007) * 53rd Legislature (2007–2011) * 54th Legislature (2011–2015) * 55th Legislature (2015-2019) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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