bicameral legislature

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1. A legislature with two houses, or chambers. The British parliament is a bicameral legislature, made up of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Likewise, the United States Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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bicameral legislature

One measure, introduced in 2018 in Mexico’s bicameral legislature, passed last year in one chamber and is now sitting in the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023

His eight-party alliance together has 312 seats in parliament, but he needs at least 376 votes in a joint sitting of the bicameral legislature, which includes the 250-member upper house appointed during military rule.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023

When discussing the structure of the government under the new constitution, the delegates from Virginia called for a bicameral legislature consisting of two houses.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

In other words, “a single House of a bicameral legislature lacks capacity to assert interests belonging to the legislature as a whole.”

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2019

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature, which first met in 1997.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency