Bicameral legislatures often make provision for experts to participate in lawmaking without being professional politicians. Prohibitionists supported direct democracy to enable voters to bypass the state legislature in lawmaking. A "legislative body", which is a legally established public lawmaking body. One of the Legislature's major functions is lawmaking. The main functions of Parliament are lawmaking, controlling the nation's finances, and ensuring ministerial accountability. The Parliamentary Assembly is the lawmaking body in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On paper, it was vested with great lawmaking and oversight powers. The seven-member City Council is the primary budgetary and lawmaking authority. They are often used to delegate lawmaking authority to the State Council. The issue was whether the U.S. federal government has the right to control state lawmaking. According to its supporters, this "legitimacy-rich" approach to national citizen lawmaking has been very successful. The Bundestag and Bundesrat nevertheless work together in the lawmaking procedure on the federal level. The republic's Supreme Soviet transformed into an authentic regional lawmaking body. In this sense, the inequality of lawmaking power also causes gender discrimination in politics. It also has significant influence over lawmaking.