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===Legislative===
===Legislative===
{{main|Cooperative Legislative Assembly|General Assembly (Ardmore){{!}}General Assembly}}
The [[Cooperative Legislative Assembly]] serves as Ardmore's legislative branch. Since 1931, the Cooperative Legislative Assembly is a {{wp|bicameral}} legislature; the Board of Labor is the upper house, and the General Assembly is the lower house. The Cooperative Legislative Assembly makes use of {{wp|fusion of powers}} much like most other systems of government that use a {{wp|parliament}}. Prior to the year 2000, the fusion of powers was even more apparent as there was no well-defined delineation between the executive and the legislative; the Board of Labor, as such, became the upper legislative house even after the reforms implemented in the year 2000. The exact responsibilities that the Board of Labor has in the legislative branch include the ability to propose legislator {{wp|bill (law)|bills}} (bills proposed by either of the head and chair of the Board of Labor are considered executive bills), and the ability to debate and vote on whether or not a given bill should become a law; responsibilities that are commonly expected in the legislative branch. There are 125 members in the Board of Labor, which includes the Chairman and the General Assembly President, with 124 of the members each representing a syndicate from which they are elected by to serve a three-year term.


Ardmore's legislative branch consists of the General Assembly, an assembly of delegates elected by popular vote from local syndicates and communities. The General Assembly is tasked with drafting and approving legislation, as well as ensuring that the policies enacted align with the principles of Marxism and syndicalism. Decision-making within the General Assembly emphasizes consensus-building and participatory democracy, with deliberation and debate playing a central role in the legislative process.
The General Assembly is the lower house of the Cooperative Legislative Assembly, and is legally required to have a minimum of 250 members, each representing the community cooperatives throughout the country and are elected for a three-year term. However, the Constitution stipulates that there is no specified maximum membership count for the General Assembly, the 250 members are only there to form the basis of a legislative {{wp|quorum}}. Indeed, the General Assembly allows for any member of the general public to not only enter the General Assembly while it is in session at any given time but also to actively participate in said session, serving as the basis for Ardmore's commitment to {{wp|direct democracy}} and consensus-building. On average, just over one thousand people actively participate in the General Assembly each day. Like the Board of Labor, the General Assembly may propose legislator bills and debate and vote on said bills to determine whether or not it should pass, but the General Assembly reserves the exclusive right to veto any new laws that have been approved by the head and chair of the Board of Labor; the grace period for a General Assembly veto is four weeks. The General Assembly is also the only legislative house that has multiple non-socialist parties represented, but to ensure that these parties are unable to dismantle the current co-operative syndicalist system there are partisan quotas set up to ensure that at least two-thirds of the General Assembly are seated by members of any of the member parties in the Popular Left Coalition.


===Judiciary===
===Judiciary===