In a parliament, the executive branch of the government is chosen from or by the representative branch.

As the most representative branch of the federal government, Congress closely tracks trends in what public opinion and the electorate identify as key issues.

In 2011 and 2012 Nichicon spun off several major factories into independent subsidiaries and established representative branches in foreign countries thus realigning their corporate infrastructure.

Repeated and essentially head-on confrontations between the life-tenured branch and the representative branches of government will not, in the long run, be beneficial to either.

On 6 October 2009, however, the association voted to become affiliated to the Conservative Party, and it is now an official representative branch of Conservative Future.

Such grievances are ordinarily more appropriately addressed in the representative branches.

The representative branch in provinces, towns, and districts is the assembly (majlis) of people's deputies, who are elected locally for a five-year term.

However, these are largely representative branches, with only a few being permitted to carry out branch functions in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

The political system in Flanders has an executive branch, the Flemish Government and a representative branch, the Flemish Parliament.

The General Assembly, also known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, was the largest and most representative branch of government, but had little power.