Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

The Inter-Congolese dialogue, that set-up the transitional institutions, created a bicameral parliament, with a National Assembly and Senate, made up of appointed representatives of the parties to the dialogue.

They are governed under the constitution of 1994. There is a bicameral parliament made of the 108-seat house of federation and the 547-seat House of Peoples Representatives.

In 1987, a new constitution was ratified, providing for an elected bicameral parliament, an elected president, and a prime minister, cabinet, ministers, and supreme court appointed by the president with parliament's consent.

The new constitution created a bicameral parliament, consisting of an Assembly ( Vouli ) and a Senate ( Gerousia ).

India's bicameral parliament consists of the Rajya Sabha ( Council of States ) and the Lok Sabha ( House of the People or Council of Ministers ).

Some of the state legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament.

Legislative power is vested in the Oireachtas, the bicameral national parliament, which consists of Dáil Éireann, Seanad Éireann and the President of Ireland.

The legislative power of the government is vested in a bicameral parliament called Tynwald ( said to be the world's oldest continuously existing parliament ), which consists of the directly elected House of Keys and the indirectly chosen Legislative Council.

Akayev scheduled an October 1994 referendum, overwhelmingly approved by voters, which proposed two amendments to the constitution — one that would allow the constitution to be amended by means of a referendum, and the other creating a new bicameral parliament called the Jogorku Kenesh.

Akayev scheduled an October 1994 referendum, overwhelmingly approved by voters, that proposed two amendments to the Constitution, one that would allow the Constitution to be amended by means of a referendum, and the other creating a new bicameral parliament called the Jogorku Keņesh.

The bicameral parliament consists of the lower house, the House of Representatives or Dewan Rakyat ( literally the " Chamber of the People ") and the upper house, the Senate or Dewan Negara ( literally the " Chamber of the Nation ").

Under its provisions, the king remained the central figure in the executive branch of the government, but legislative power was vested in a bicameral parliament, and an independent judiciary was guaranteed.

The monarch of Nigeria was still head of state but legislative power was vested in a bicameral parliament, executive power in a prime minister and cabinet, and judicial authority in a Federal Supreme Court.

:* The federal ( Commonwealth ) government of Australia has a bicameral parliament, and each of Australia's six states has a bicameral parliament except for Queensland, which has a unicameral parliament.

:* The federal government of Canada has a bicameral parliament, and each of Canada's 10 provinces has a unicameral parliament.

The new constitution ( adopted by referendum in 2002 ), returns to the earlier model with a seven-year presidential term and a bicameral national parliament.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

For bicameral humans, when habit did not suffice to handle novel stimuli and stress rose at the moment of decision, neural activity in the " dominant " ( left ) hemisphere was modulated by auditory verbal hallucinations originating in the so-called " silent " ( right ) hemisphere ( particularly the right temporal cortex ), which were heard as the voice of a chieftain or god and immediately obeyed.

Jaynes wrote, " bicameral humans, volition came as a voice that was in the nature of a neurological command, in which the command and the action were not separated, in which to hear was to obey.

Nepal's legislature was bicameral consisting of a House of Representatives and a National Council.

A new constitution was agreed upon in January 2002, granting the president new powers and extending his term to seven years as well as introducing a new bicameral assembly.

The Parliament was bicameral, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

The bicameral system was also established there.

The constitution established a political system which was based on Montesquieu's doctrine of separation of powers, and which restored the bicameral Sejm consisting of a lower house ( to which alone the name of Sejm was from then on applied ) and an upper house, the ' Senate '.

After the fall of communism in 1989, the Senate was reinstated as the upper house of a bicameral national assembly, while the Sejm became the lower house.

Under the 1976 republican Constitution, the British monarch was replaced as head of state by a President chosen by an electoral college composed of the members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Also passed in the 2002 referendum was a plan to create a bicameral parliament.

The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

A bicameral parliament was created, consisting of a House of Assembly and Senate, and its members were elected mostly by the country's white minority.

The new parliament was bicameral, and consisted of a Senate ( Sena ) and a House of Representatives ( Wolesi Jirga ).

* In some cases, a bicameral legislature may have an " upper house " that is not directly elected, such as the Canadian Senate, which was in turn modeled on the British House of Lords.

The Parliament of the third republic is also bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate.

In the federal ( bicameral ) kingdom of Belgium, there is a curious asymmetrical constellation serving as directly elected legislatures for three " territorial " regions — Flanders ( Dutch ), Brussels ( bilingual, certain peculiarities of competence, also the only region not comprising any of the 10 provinces ) and Wallonia ( French )— and three cultural communities — Flemish ( Dutch, competent in Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Brussels ), Francophone ( French, for Wallonia and for Francophones in Brussels ) and German ( for speakers of that language in a few designated municipalities in the east of the Walloon Region, living alongside Francophones but under two different regimes )

* an elected legislature, often bicameral, in which at least one house is elected, although unicameral systems also exist ; legislative members are usually elected by district in first-past-the-post elections ( as opposed to country-wide proportional representation ).

In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members, such as " senators ".

It housed the tribal governor, the bicameral legislature and other government officials and clerks, The territorial court also met there from time to time.

A related case, Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533 ( 1964 ), held that seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must also, to satisfy the Equal Protection Clause, represent districts as equal in population as practicably possible.

The Founding Fathers of the United States also favored a bicameral legislature.

In some countries with federal systems, individual states ( like those of the United States, Australia and a few States of India ) may also have bicameral legislatures.

Each bicameral Australian state ( that is, all but Queensland ) also has its own Black Rod.

The Virginia Plan ( also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan ) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.

Since the first multi-party elections held after the start of Communist rule, there have been eight speakers of the parliament ; the first five, executing the office until constitutional amendments in March 2001, were also speakers of the Chamber of Deputies ( since the parliament was bicameral at the time ).

* The Directory ( Directoire ) – From 22 August, 1795, the Convention was replaced by the Directory, a bicameral legislature that more or less institutionalized the dominance of the bourgeoisie while also enacting a major land reform that was henceforward to place the peasants firmly on the political right.

Scripts using two separate cases are also called " bicameral scripts ".

The National Assembly () is the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura, which also comprises the President of Pakistan and Senate ( upper house ).

On 4 March 1849, however, Minister-President Felix zu Schwarzenberg took the initiative and imposed the March Constitution, which promised the equality of all Austrian people and also provided for a bicameral Reichstag legislature.

Every state also has a parliament ; most states have a bicameral parliament, except for Queensland, where the upper chamber ( the Legislative Council ) was abolished in 1922. The Legislative Council of Queensland, Queensland Parliament website Unlike their United States counterparts, Australian states have a Westminster system of parliamentary government ; the head of government, known in each state as a Premier, is drawn from the state parliament.

During the same period, eight parliamentary elections ( including two for the upper house when the parliament was bicameral ) were also held.

* Delegate is also the title given to individuals elected to the lower houses of the bicameral legislative bodies of the states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia ( see House of Delegates ).

The new constitution also converted the formerly bicameral National Assembly into a unicameral legislature, and stripped it of many of its former powers.

The constitution also called for the creation of a bicameral legislature to be called the Federal Assembly, consisting of a lower house State Duma, and an upper house Federation Council.

There were also some ideas to reform the parliament into bicameral, however there was not much of public support for its realization.

The Parliament was bicameral, consisting of the Dáil Éireann ( the lower house ) with 153 seats and the Seanad Éireann ( the upper house ; also known as the ' Senate ') with 60 seats.

A national bicameral legislature, is also elected, consisting of the Palau National Congress ( Olbiil era Kelulau ) and the Senate of Palau.