It is the period that the senators and deputies have in the chamber to exercise their mandate, the duration of this period includes from the beginning that it was established until days before the new parliamentary elections are formulated and knowing who will take these positions. This period can be regular or special and are fixed in the texts of the articles of incorporation that are released at the same time that it is installed.
The respective dissolution of this legislature, which when its settlement is exposed, also ends and its powers and sanctions lose validity at the end of its constitutional legislative period. Each country has its own legislature and their terms vary from 3 to 5 years of magistracy or term of office.
The functions exercised by the deputies, senators and congressmen are considered a compound legislature, their terms or first transition goes from one year to another, that is, if it begins on June 1, 2006, it will close on May 30, 2006. 2007, comprised of two ordinary sessions every one week period, dealing with discussion topics based on the studies and previous assessments of the consequences and at the end their respective votes, all under what is the responsibility, corresponds and forms of this constitutional legislature.
In summary, the legislature is the performance of functions that for a better functioning of the State are divided into the different powers, functions that are specific and proper to its representatives and those who make it up, for the period of time stipulated by law, thus taking decisions on issues of legal and local importance and that concern the people in general; making laws and modifying them that by representing the people also regulate with these decisions, the rights and obligations of the inhabitants.
