states general in English

noun
1
the bicameral legislative body in the Netherlands.
During the republican era the States-General (De Staten Generaal; the Dutch parliament) used a red flag with a yellow/golden lion.
2
the legislative body in France until 1789, representing the three estates of the realm (i.e., the clergy, the nobility, and the commons).

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1. Mr Frédéric Korthals Altes, President of the First Chamber of the States General of the Netherlands :

2. Marlborough was much Chagrined at being interrupted in his meditated decisive operations by the States-General, on this occasion

3. The Stadtholder was too wary a politician to Approbate immediately so sweeping a proposal, and referred it to the States-General

4. The Cahiers de doléances were written on occasion of the convocation of the Estates General, also called States General.

5. The United States General Accounting Office found in a report in 2000 that controls on the H-1B program lacked effectiveness.

6. Here in Paris, where the States General convened in 1789 to oppose an absolutist regime, we should be inspired by the words of their leader, the Comte de Mirabeau:

7. Historians and legal scholars, most of them in the Netherlands, examine the July 1581 Act of Abjuration, issued by the States General to declare their prince Abjured from his titles and offices, and to justify this abjuration. The act of abjuration; inspired and inspirational