National Democratic Congress (Ghana)The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a social democraticpolitical party in Ghana, founded by Jerry Rawlings, who was Head of State from 1981 to 1993. He became the President of Ghana from 1993 to 2001. Following the formation of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), which ruled Ghana following the military coup d'état on 31 December 1981, there was pressure from the international community to restore democracy.Legislative councilA legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the British (former) colonies. However, it has also been used as designation in other (non-Commonwealth) nations. A member of a legislative council is commonly referred to as an MLC and may use those letters as a post-nominal.
Speaker (politics)The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The first documented use of the title was in 1377 in England. UsageThe title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerford in the Parliament of England. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like.
Universal suffrageRight of every person to an equal say in politicsUniversal suffrage lexical
LegislatureThe Hungarian Parliament Building, or 'Országház', where Hungary's legislature, the National Assembly of Hungary, meets.Palace of Westminster, where the legislature of the United Kingdom, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, meets.The Palazzo Madama is the seat of the upper house of the Italian Parliament, the Senate of the Republic.The United States Capitol, where the federal legislature of the United States, the United States Congress, meets.A legislature (UK: , US: ) is a deliberative assembly that holds the legal authority to make law and exercise political oversight within a political entity such as a state, nation, or city.Emmanuel Charles QuistSir Emmanuel Charles Quist, also known as Paa Quist (21 May 1880, in Christiansborg, Accra – 30 March 1959) was a barrister, educator and judge who served as the first Speaker of the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly and the first Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.
ConstitutionA constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.Ex officio memberAn ex officio member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, or council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office. The term ex officio is Latin, meaning literally 'from the office', and the sense intended is 'by right of office'; its use dates back to the Roman Republic. According to Robert's Rules of Order, the term denotes only how one becomes a member of a body.
Gold Coast (British colony)British colony in Africa from 1821 to 1957Today part ofGhanaThe Colony of the Gold Coast was a BritishCrown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence as Ghana in 1957. The term Gold Coast may also refer collectively to the four separate jurisdictions administered by the Governor of the Gold Coast: the colony proper, Ashanti, the Northern Territories, and British Togoland.
GhanaCountry in West AfricaGhana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. Ghana covers an area of 239,567 km (92,497 sq mi), spanning various ecologies, from coastalsavannas to tropical rainforests.ColonyA colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often organized into colonial empires, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither annexed or even integrated territories, nor client states.Electoral districtAn electoral district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, circumscription, electorate, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity.
First-past-the-post votingFirst-past-the-post (FPTP) — also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality — is a single-winner voting rule. Each voter marks one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a plurality) is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a majority).*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.