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.

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

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 new constitution created the Directoire () and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

In 1964, King Zahir Shah promulgated a liberal constitution providing for a bicameral legislature to which the king appointed one-third of the deputies.

The new constitution created the Directory and the first bicameral legislature in French history.

Under constitutional changes in 2004, the MPR became a bicameral legislature, with the creation of the Dewan Perwakilan Daerah ( DPD ), in which each province is represented by four members, although its legislative powers are more limited than those of the DPR.

The 1962 constitution established a bicameral legislature consisting of a 117-member House of Representatives and a 41-member Senate.

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.

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s culminated in the constitutional reform of 1996, which created a new bicameral legislature with expanded, although still limited, powers.

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997, and with the death of King Hassan II of Morocco in 1999, the more liberal-minded Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, who assumed the title of Mohammed VI, took the throne.

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

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 Sultanate has neither political parties nor legislature, although the bicameral representative bodies provide the government with advice.

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

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

Within its government, power is shared between a directly elected president, a prime minister, and an incompletely bicameral legislature.

This legislature is bicameral, integrated by the Congress of Deputies () and the Senate ().

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

It stipulated a bicameral legislature, both houses of which are elected.

In May and June 1835, Michigan drafted a State Constitution, with provisions for a bicameral legislature, a supreme court, and other components of a functional state government.

The first three Articles of the Constitution establish the rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress ; an executive branch led by the President ; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court.

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.

* 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 the national elections held in February 1913 for the new bicameral parliament, Song campaigned against the Yuan administration, whose representation at the time was largely by the Republican Party, led by Liang Qichao.

In bicameral parliaments, the term relates to the situation in the chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial.

The Assembly was a bicameral legislature, consisting of a Herrenhaus ( House of Lords ) or upper house, whose members were selected by the provincial governments, and a Landtag ( Country Diet ) whose members were elected by male suffrage but were seated only through a complicated system of electoral committees.

At the national level, Pakistan elects a bicameral legislature, the Parliament of Pakistan, which consists of a directly elected National Assembly of Pakistan and a Senate, whose members are chosen by elected provincial legislators.

The 1925 constitution called for a bicameral parliament whose lower house, the Chamber of Deputies ( Majlis an-Nuwwab ) would be elected based on universal manhood suffrage.

The Legislative Assembly is bicameral, consisting of an upper and lower house: the Senate, whose 30 members are elected to serve four-year terms ; and the House of Representatives, with 60 members elected to two-year terms.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

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.

Both unicameral and bicameral parliaments have been used, and members of parliament have been both elected and appointed.

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.

On February 20, 2001, a new constitutional amendment created a bicameral legislature consisting of a Shura Council ( 111 seats ; members appointed by the president ) and a House of Representatives ( 301 seats ; members elected by popular vote ).

In federal countries, such Senators represent the territories, while the other members represent the people at large ( this device is used to allow a federal representation without having to establish a bicameral legislature ); this is the case with St. Kitts and Nevis, Comoros and Micronesia.

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.

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 organs of the state were to be a bicameral Legislative Corps, to be elected in indirect elections, and a Directoire-like Executive of five members.

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 authority is vested in a bicameral National Diet and, whereas previously the upper house had consisted of members of the nobility, the new constitution provided that both chambers be directly elected.

The Cabinet is composed of 14 members selected by the Premier from among members of the bicameral parliament consisting of the nominated Senate and the House of Assembly.

The reasons for this proposed change was based on the growing public opinion that members of the assembly are overpaid, and that a smaller assembly might achieve the same work results as the bicameral one with less public expenditures.

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 ".

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 ).

On January 16, 2007, Rosselló led the party caucus in the Senate to a reprimand of two more NPP senators, fellow Arecibo senator José Emilio González and Bayamón senator Carmelo Ríos for voting in favor of a concurrent resolution proposing a constitutional amendment that would turn Puerto Rico's bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislative system, increasing the number of reprimanded caucus members to eight of the total of sixteen elected in 2004.