Cortes

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The Cortes Generales ("General Courts"), usually referred to only as the Cortes, are the national legislative assembly of Spain. They are a bicameral assembly, consisting of the 350-member lower house (the Congress of Deputies) and the 259-member upper house (the Senate).

 

The term Cortes is also used for the subnational parliaments of several of Spain's autonomous communities and various bodies from Spanish history.


		

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In the Spanish-speaking American republics, the word corte is most commonly used to designate courts of law: organs of the judiciary, not of the legislative branch. Thus, several Latin American countries have supreme courts known as the Suprema Corte or Corte Suprema, and the  continent's San Jose-based Inter-American Human Rights Court is the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Additionally, the official Spanish name of the International Criminal Court is Corte Penal Internacional for all varieties of Spanish.

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For the 16th century Spanish conquistador, see Hernan Cortes.