While most of the nations of Western Europe had adopted bicameral parliaments by the end of the 19th century, in 1906 the Finns adopted a unicameral parliamentary system, and female citizens were included in universal suffrage.

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.

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 '.

In 1906, UNB established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors exercising exclusive control over financial policy and other matters.

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.

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 politics of Tunisia function within a framework of a democratic constitutional republic, with a President serving as head of state, Prime Minister as head of government, a bicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law.

With the help of Sémonville he now started to push a project of constitutional reform that followed the French Constitution of the Year VIII in important respects: a bicameral legislature would be appointed by a " National College " ( akin to the French Senate ) from a list of names produced by a convoluted system of national elections.

It introduced a bicameral system boasting a wholly elected thirty-five-member Legislative Assembly and a thirteen-member Senate to be appointed by the governor.

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 ).

The Legislative Branch may be organized as a unicameral or a bicameral system ( that is, either one or two chambers or houses ).

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 system including a Lower House with representation by population ( rep by pop ) and an Upper House with representation based on regional, rather than provincial, equality ;

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

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.

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.

It guarantees certain fundamental rights, along with a popularly elected non-executive president, a bicameral parliament based on the Westminster system, a separation of powers and judicial review.

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.

The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act 1906, which established a bicameral system of university government comprising a Senate ( composed of members of the faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a Board of Governors ( composed of members of the community ), which exercises exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

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.

In 2002, Bahrain adopted a bicameral system with an elected lower chamber and an appointed upper house.

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 over all other matters.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.