bicameral legislature

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• Likewise, a bicameral legislature in a federal parliamentary system, such as Germany, may incentivize executive oversight.

  Academic text (2016)

• The United States is a democracy with a bicameral legislature consisting of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

• The United States is a democracy with a bicameral legislature and separation of powers.

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• Unlike the United States, Zambia lacks the checks inherent in a federal state with a bicameral legislature.

  Academic text (1994)

• However, we find that bicameral legislatures do not develop stronger committees than unicameral legislatures.

  Academic text (2016)

• The possibility of divided government inheres in a constitutional republic where both houses of a bicameral legislature and the head of the executive branch are all elected by the people, but not by the same people at the same time.

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• At some point soon, a bicameral legislature must be established, with a lower house free of confessional quotas, which would allow the Shiites better representation.

  Academic text (2006)

• It might have been a foregone conclusion that America would have some form of democracy, but it was not inevitable that it be a liberal democracy founded on respect for individual rights and characterized by a bicameral legislature, an independent executive, a limited Constitution, and judicial review.

  Academic text (2000)

• In his most complete elucidation of his lukewarm approval of the new body of laws, after listing the things about the new government he liked, mainly a bicameral legislature independent of the states, and the popularly elected lower house's power to levy direct taxes, Jefferson wrote, "I will now add what I do not like."

  Academic text (2016)

• So the Framers did their framing and came up with an entirely new plan: new powers for the government (power to regulate interstate commerce was just one of many), a powerful new executive branch (there was no president under the Articles), a new national judiciary, and a bicameral legislature (to replace the unicameral system under the Articles).

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Antonyms

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unicameral

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A law-making body with only one house instead of two

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