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The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. The State Senate has 59 members while the House has 118. A Senate district is formed by combining two House districts. The current General Assembly is Illinois's 99th. The General Assembly meets in the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Its session laws are published in the official ''Laws of Illinois''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=5 September 2013 )〕 ==History== The Illinois General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. Initially, the state did not have organized political parties, but the Democratic and Whig parties began to form in the 1830s. Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln successfully campaigned to serve in the General Assembly in 1834, running as a Whig. He won election to the state legislature; though he ran as a Whig.〔White, Jr., Ronald C. (2009). ''A. Lincioln: A Biography''. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-6499-1, p. 59.〕 He served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, supporting expanded suffrage and the abolition of slavery. The Illinois Republican Party was organized at a conference held in Major's Hall in Bloomington, Illinois on May 29, 1856. Its founding members came from the former Whig Party in Illinois after its members joined with several powerful local political factions including, notably, the Independent Democrat movement of Chicago that helped elect James Hutchinson Woodworth as mayor in 1848. During the election of 1860 in which Lincoln was elected president, Illinois also elected a Republican governor and legislature, but the trials of war helped return the state legislature to the Democratic Party of Illinois in 1861.〔VandeCreek, Drew E. (Politics in Illinois and the Union During the Civil War ) (accessed May 27, 2013)〕 The Democratic Party-led legislature investigated the state's war expenditures and the treatment of Illinois troops, but with little political gain.〔 They also worked to frame a new state constitution that gave the southern portion of the state increased representation and included provisions to discourage banking and the circulation of paper currency.〔 Voters rejected each of the constitution's provisions, except the bans on black settlement, voting and office holding.〔 The Democratic Party came to represent skepticism in the war effort, until Illinois' Democratic leader Stephen A. Douglas changed his stance and pledged his full support to Lincoln.〔 The Democratic Party swept the 1862 election.〔 They passed resolutions denouncing the federal government's conduct of the war and urging an immediate armistice and peace convention in the Illinois House of Representatives, leading the Republican governor to suspend the legislature for the first time in the state's history.〔 In 1864, Republicans swept the state legislature and at the time of Lincoln's assassination, Illinois stood as a solidly Republican state.〔 By the 1990s, Illinois had started to become more Democratic in state elections, in a large part because the GOP's Southern Strategy had alienated many Northeastern and Midwestern Republican voters. In 1996, the Democratic Party gained control of the Illinois House of Representatives. In 2002, a Democratic candidate became Illinois governor for the first time in 26 years and Democrats gained control over the Illinois Senate. With the exception of 2010 and 2014, Illinois Democrats have consistently gained more and more power in every election year in Illinois since the mid-1990s. 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「Illinois General Assembly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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