The Council of the European Union ( sometimes just called the Council and sometimes still referred to as the Council of Ministers ) is the institution in the essentially bicameral legislature of the European Union ( EU ) representing the executives of member states, the other legislative body being the European Parliament.

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

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

On October 4, 1966, the Kingdom of Lesotho attained full independence, governed by a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral Parliament consisting of a Senate and an elected National Assembly.

From its appearance in the 14th century Parliament has been a bicameral legislature consisting of the Commons and the Lords.

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.

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

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.

Parliament is bicameral, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

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.

Other major changes included the direct election of the parliaments of the Communities and the Regions, the splitting up of the Province of Brabant into Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant, and the reformation of the Federal Parliament's bicameral system and the relations between the Federal Parliament and the Federal Government.

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

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 ).

Barbados ' Parliament consists of the monarch and a bicameral legislature: an elected House of Assembly and an appointed Senate.

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

In Afghanistan the term Member of Parliament refers to the members of both chambers of the bicameral National Assembly of Afghanistan, the 249 members of the lower Wolesi Jirga ( House of the People ) and the 102 members of the upper Mesherano Jirga ( House of Elders ).

The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was bicameral, consisting of a House of Commons with 52 seats, and an indirectly-elected Senate with 26 seats.

For instance, the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan is officially called the Majlis-i-Shura, although the Constitution uses various spellings of the term.

Louis De Geer, the architect behind the new bicameral Parliament of 1866 that replaced the centuries old Riksdag of the Estates, became the first officeholder in 1876.

The European Union maintains a bicameral legislative system which consists of the European Parliament, which is elected in general elections on the basis of universal suffrage, and the Council of the European Union which consists of members of the governments of the Member States which are competent for the relevant field of legislation.

A referendum on introducing a unicameral Parliament instead of the current bicameral Parliament was held in Romania on 22 November 2009.

The bicameral National Congress ( Congreso Nacional ) consists of the Senate ( Senado ) and the Chamber of Deputies ( Cámara de Diputados ).

Colombia's bicameral Congress consists of a 102-member Senate of Colombia and a 161-member Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.

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

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.

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 ").

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

Every state except Nebraska has a bicameral legislature, meaning that the legislature consists of two separate legislative chambers or houses.

The Legislative Branch is a bicameral Congress, which consists of the Senate ( 72 seats ), presided by the Vice-President, and the Chamber of Deputies ( 257 seats ), currently presided by Eduardo Fellner of the Province of Jujuy ).

The bicameral parliament consists of the 64-seat Council of the Republic and the 110-seat Chamber of Representatives.

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

The program consists of a model bicameral legislature, a Supreme Court, and a press.

Like other programs, it consists of a model bicameral legislature and a press.

Pakistan has a bicameral legislature that consists of the Senate ( upper house ) and the National Assembly ( lower house ).

It is a bicameral institution, as it consists of the House of Laity, who are directly elected by the parishes, and the House of Clergy.

Austria's national bicameral parliament, the Bundesversammlung ( Federal Assembly ), consists of a directly elected Nationalrat ( National Council ) and a Bundesrat ( Federal Council ).

It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the Indiana House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Indiana Senate.

A conference committee is a joint committee of a bicameral legislature, which is appointed by, and consists of, members of both chambers to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.

It provides for the establishment and the organization of three main branches of the government: the bicameral legislative branch called the Parliament, which consists of the House of Representatives ( in Malay, Dewan Rakyat ) and the Senate ( Dewan Negara ); the executive branch led by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet Ministers ; and the judicial branch headed by the Federal Court.

The Parliament of Canada, the bicameral national legislature located on Parliament Hill in the national capital of Ottawa, consists of the Queen ( represented by the governor general ), the appointed Senate ( upper house ), and the elected House of Commons ( lower house ).

It is a bicameral legislature located at the Minnesota Capitol in Saint Paul and it consists of two houses: the lower Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate.