This is an organization that seeks to attain and maintain power within government usually by participating in electoral campaigns.

example: republicans
democrats

Their solution was to tax the colonists. 

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.