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| political_groups2 = | committees1 = | committees2 = | joint_committees = | voting_system1 = Indirect election | voting_system2 = Party-list proportional representation | last_election1 = 26 May 2015 | last_election2 = 12 September 2012 | session_room = Den Haag Binnenhof.jpg | session_res = | meeting_place = Binnenhof The Hague, Netherlands | website = (www.staten-generaal.nl ) | footnotes = }} The States General ((オランダ語:Staten-Generaal)) are the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands, consisting of the Senate () and the House of Representatives (). The parliament meets at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The States General originated in the 15th century as an assembly of all the provincial states of the Burgundian Netherlands. In 1579, during the Dutch Revolt, the States General split as the northern provinces openly rebelled against Philip II, and the northern States General replaced Philip II as the supreme authority of the Dutch Republic in 1581. The States General were replaced by the National Assembly after the Batavian Revolution of 1795, only to be restored in 1814, when the country had regained its sovereignty. The States General was divided into a Senate and a House of Representatives in 1815, with the establishment of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the constitutional amendment of 1848, members of the House of Representatives were directly elected, and the rights of the States General were vastly extended, practically establishing parliamentary democracy in the Netherlands. Since 1918, the members of the House of Representatives are elected for four years using party-list proportional representation, while the 75 members of the Senate are elected by the States-Provincial every four years. On exceptional occasions, the two houses form a joint session known as the United Assembly. The President of the Senate serves as President of the States General during a United Assembly. Ankie Broekers-Knol (VVD) has been President of the Senate since 2013. ==Etymology== The archaic Dutch word ''staten'' originally related to the feudal classes ("estates", or ''standen'' in Dutch) in which medieval European societies were stratified; the clergy, the nobility and the commons. The word eventually came to mean the ''political body'' in which the respective estates were represented. Each province in the Habsburg Netherlands had its own ''staten''. These representative bodies (and not their constituent estates)〔Unlike the Estates General of France, which were organised by estate.〕 in turn were represented in the assembly that came to be known as ''Staten-Generaal'' (a plurale tantum), or ''Algemene Staten'' (General States). The English word "states" may have a similar meaning as the Dutch word ''staten'', as in e.g. States of Jersey. The English phrases "States General" is probably a literal translation of the Dutch word.〔In treaties, such as the Treaty of Westminster (1654), the States General were called:"Celsos Potentesque Dominos Ordines Generales Foederatarum Belgii Provinciarum", or "High and Mighty Lords States General of the united Netherlands' Provinces", where ''ordines'' corresponds with "states."〕 Historically, the same term was used for the name of other national legislatures as, for example, the Catalan and Valencian Generalitat and the Estates General of France during the Ancien Régime. Several geographic place names are derived from the States General. In 1609, Henry Hudson established Dutch trade in Staten Island, New York City and named the island ''Staaten Eylandt'' after the States General. Isla de los Estados, now an Argentine island, was also named after this institution, the Spanish name being a translation of the Dutch name. Abel Tasman originally gave the name Staten Landt to what would become New Zealand. Staaten River is a river in the Cape York Peninsula, Australia. 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「States General of the Netherlands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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