bicameral legislature

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

“It was a really frightening and scary time, like flying blind in a storm,” said Larry Sanitoa, a member of the Fono, American Samoa’s bicameral legislature, and chairman of a nursing home called Hope House.

From New York Times • May 6, 2020

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