In bicameral legislatures, there may be a process laid out for second or third readings of bills before a new law can enter into force.

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

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 )

Similarly in Argentina, in addition to the Senate at federal level, eight of the country's provinces, Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Mendoza, Salta, San Luis ( since 1987 ) and Santa Fe, have bicameral legislatures with a Senate.

In all bicameral legislatures, the smaller chamber is called the Senate and is usually referred to as the upper house.

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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.

In his book on political issues, Do I Stand Alone ?, Ventura argued that bicameral legislatures for provincial and local areas were excessive and unnecessary, and discussed unicameralism as a reform that could address many legislative and budgetary problems for states.

in Argentina, eight provinces have bicameral legislatures, with a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies: Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Mendoza, Salta, San Luis ( since 1987 ) and Santa Fe.

Similarly, many formerly Communist states, such as Ukraine, Moldova and Serbia, have retained their unicameral legislatures, though others, such as Russia and Poland, adopted bicameral legislatures after the fall of Communism.

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The Court decided that in states with bicameral legislatures both houses had to be apportioned on this standard, voiding the provision of the Arizona Constitution which had provided for two state senators from each county and similar provisions elsewhere.

Its bicameral parliament was elected under comparatively democratic methods for the era, as were the provincial and local legislatures.

* In the United States of America, House of Assembly was the name generally given to the legislatures of the original British colonies ( such as that of Delaware ), and the Assembly is the name given by many current US states to their bicameral legislatures.

With a total of 60 lawmakers, the Alaska Legislature is the smallest bicameral state legislature in the United States and the second-smallest of all state legislatures ( only the 49-member unicameral Nebraska Legislature is smaller ).

While such committees are common in the United States Congress and legislatures in other countries with Presidential Systems, they are no longer in use in the Parliament of the United Kingdom or most other bicameral Westminster system parliaments.

This was a holdover from the legislature's historic bicameral structure — instead of simply abolishing its upper house as most Canadian provinces with historically bicameral legislatures did, Prince Edward Island merged the two houses in 1893.

The Constitutional Committee proposed a bicameral legislature, but the motion was defeated 10 September 1789 ( 849-89 ) in favour of one house ; the next day, they proposed an absolute veto, but were again defeated ( 673-325 ) in favour of a suspensive veto, which could be over-ridden by three consecutive legislatures.

Category: Defunct bicameral legislatures

Category: Defunct bicameral legislatures

Americans had never known anything but bicameral legislatures, both in Britain and in most state governments.

Until 1891, it was the lower house in a bicameral legislature when its upper house counterpart, the Legislative Council of New Brunswick, was abolished.

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.

In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.

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 ").

Elections are held every four years in universal suffrage ( for all citizens above 18 ), with each of the twenty-four constituencies ( see below ) electing one or more representatives ( senators ) to the lower house of RMI ’ s bicameral legislature, the Nitijela.

Nigeria is a Federal Republic modeled after the United States, with executive power exercised by the president and with influences from the Westminster System model in the composition and management of the upper and lower houses of the bicameral legislature.

The bicameral federal legislature consists of the Senate ( upper house ) and National Assembly ( lower house ).

Governments ( the equivalent of the executive branch ) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament ( and if bicameral, primarily to the lower house, which is more numerous, directly elected, and thus more representative than the upper house ) rather than to the monarch, or, in the colonial context, to the imperial government.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and in the two chambers, the National Assembly ( lower ) and the Council of States ( upper ), of the bicameral National Legislature.

According to the new 2005 constitution, the bicameral National Legislature is the official Sudanese parliament, and is divided between two chambers ; the National Assembly, a lower house with 450 seats, and the Council of States, an upper house with 50 seats.

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.

A bicameral legislature that includes the Senate ( upper house ) and the National Assembly ( lower house ).

Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

In a bicameral system, it is often the so-called lower house, e. g. the British House of Commons that exercises the major elements of control and oversight ; in some others, e. g. Australia and Italy, the government is constitutionally or by convention answerable to both chambers / Houses of Parliament.

Modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the " House of Representatives ", " House of Commons ", " Chamber of Deputies ", " National Assembly ", " Legislative Assembly ", or " House of Assembly ", by electoral rules.

A bicameral legislature possesses two separate chambers, usually described as an upper house and a lower house, which often differ in duties, powers, and the methods used for the selection of members.

The lower house of the bicameral Parliament is the Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia ( Majlis al-Nuwaab ), which has 214 seats.

* House of Assembly, a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral legislature

* National Assembly, is either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries

Under this system, France was led by a bicameral Parliament, consisting of an upper chamber called the Council of Elders ( with 250 members ) and a lower chamber called the Council of Five-Hundreds ( with, accordingly, 500 members ) and a collective Executive government of five members called the Directory ( from which the historical period gets its name ).

Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament, both the upper National Council and the lower National Assembly.

The legislative branch consists of a bicameral Legislative Assembly made up of a Senate upper chamber and a House of Representatives lower chamber.

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 ".