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Abstract
A legislative assembly is an archetype democratic institution. It is where significant collective debates and decision-making occur. A marginalized linguistic community will risk being ignored without proper access to assemblies as political institutions. This article analyses the place of francophones in the New Brunswick legislative assembly, including their right to vote, to be seated, to use their language during debate, and to have the proceedings reported in their own language. In New Brunswick, the case of French language access to the legislative assembly is a long and complex history.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.