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

Congress had been transformed into a bicameral legislature with additional powers, and a national judicial system had been created.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

In 1987, under the newly inaugurated president, Corazon C. Aquino, the country established a Constitution that limited presidential powers and set up a bicameral legislature.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019

The principal advantage of a bicameral legislature is that each house serves as a check upon the haste of the other and thus insures more careful consideration of bills.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford