Legislature Militaries

Are there any nations who have or have had in the past militaries that were were under the command of the legislature body? Besides the Roundheads of the English Civil War.
 
The US constitution specifically grants the power to declare war to the House of Representatives, so theoretically yes, but in practice not in this case.
 
The US constitution specifically grants the power to declare war to the House of Representatives, so theoretically yes, but in practice not in this case.

I think there was originally or a proposed provision to have the House have the power to declare and run war, but it was scrapped due to fears over invasions while Congress wasn't in session.
 
Are there any nations who have or have had in the past militaries that were were under the command of the legislature body? Besides the Roundheads of the English Civil War.

The French Revolutionary armies were under control of the National Assembly. It's fairly common in any nominally democratic revolutionary situation, actually; the revolutionary forces in the October Revolution were theoretically under the control of the Petrograd Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee rather than the Bolshevik party.
 
Has it ever occurred in a nation that is at peacetime? What about a nation that is a presidential system? The nation doesn't necessarily have to be stable, or even very democratic; it just has to have those organs of state (legislature, executive, etc.)
 
The US constitution specifically grants the power to declare war to the House of Representatives, so theoretically yes, but in practice not in this case.
No, the Constitution grants the power to make war to Congress, not just the House. And the power to raise and fund a military. The US Armed Forces are, however, commanded by the Executive Branch. So it is not entirely under Congress' control; most unlike what the OP is looking for.
 
The swiss Generals are elected by the legislature and not appointed by the executive, so they are ulitmatly responsible to the legislature.
 
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China during the warlord period might count.

The Soviet Union also counts, since they technically had no executive branch (until Gorbachev made himself President).

Is the Queen still technically the commander-in-chief of the Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand militaries?

In fact, any country that doesn't have a president, or where the president is not commander-in-chief.
 
Technically,the revolutionary army during the chilean civil war of 1891 dependend on the Congress.

Also, at some extent the comunero armies during the castilian war of the Comunidades depended on a legislative body (Cortes y Junta general del reino) , although it's arguable because for all practical effects it was both a legislative and executive body as its name suggests and any idea of division of powers was laxe, if not nonexistant at the time.
 
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