To achieve a quorum, the ancient Athenian Assembly employed Scythian police to arrest citizens at random from the street.
The word had its origins and inspirations from the National Assembly that was responsible for drafting a constitution during the French Revolution.
When these empires collapsed finally, the emancipated countries formed states and other institutions on the model of the former imperial nations.
Some examples of international influences are as follows: In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848–1849 and 1918–1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament (Reichstag) later.
He describes his Declaration as ordonné qu'en Assemblées Provinciales & Nationales des nosdites sujets.
[2] This was the "registration" that the Parlement of Paris refused to perform for Louis XVI of France in 1787–1788.
For example, at the end of the First English Civil War, an Act of Parliament, 1648, "Concerning the Members of the Classical and Congregational Presbyteries, in the several counties of the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales," establishes a national congregational church in England and Wales, corresponding to the presbyteries of Scotland.