Senate (Portugal)
Senate Senado | |
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Type | |
Type | Chamber of Peers of Portugal |
Succeeded by | Corporative Chamber |
Meeting place | |
São Bento Palace Lisbon, Portugal |
The
First Senate (1838–1842)
The Chamber of Senators (Câmara dos Senadores) or Senate was the upper house of the Cortes Gerais - the legislature of the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy -, during the period in which the Constitution of 1838 was in force. It replaced the previous Chamber of the Peers, which was the upper house during the period of the Constitutional Charter of 1826. When the Constitutional Charter was restored in 1842, the Chamber of Peers was also restored and the Senate disbanded.
Second Senate (1911–1933)
The Senate of the Republic (Senado da República) was the upper house of the
Other historic uses in Portugal
The term "senate" was used, in the past, as an alternative designation of the municipal government bodies of some main cities of Portugal and of the
During the 1913-1936 period, a number of councillors of each câmara municipal formed an executive commission which constituted the executive body of the municipality, with the plenary of the councillors constituting a deliberative assembly occasionally referred to as "municipal senate".
References
- ^ Assembly of the Republic, Debates Parlamentares - Câmara dos Deputados (in Portuguese), Lisbon