5050 x 3360 px | 42,8 x 28,4 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
18 août 2008
Lieu:
House of Assembly, Hamilton, Bermuda.
Informations supplémentaires:
House of Assembly, Hamilton, Bermuda. The House of Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Bermuda. The house has 36 members, each elected for a five year term in a single seat constituencies. The Sessions House, the building currently housing the House of Assembly and the Supreme Court, in the City of Hamilton. The House of Assembly was created at a time when Bermuda, or The Somers Isles, was administered by the Somers Isles Company (1615-1684), an offshoot of the Virginia Company. The House of Burgesses had been created in Virginia in 1619. It was overseen by a Governor appointed by the Company (from 1684, by the Crown), although, for much of the colony's history, the real political power lay with the appointed Privy council, or Governor's Council, composed of members of Bermuda's wealthy merchant class. During periods when the colony was without a Governor, the President of the Council might find himself Acting Governor, also. The balance of power began to shift away from the Council in the 19th Century, when Bermuda assumed a new importance in Imperial security, and when the Governor became also the Commander in Chief of the naval establishment and military garrison. Following revisions made to Bermuda's parliamentary system in the 1960s, the two roles once performed by the dissolved Council are now performed by an appointed upper house, the Senate, and a Cabinet, which is composed of Ministers appointed from elected Members of Parliament from the House of Assembly.
