Sentences with phrase «bicameral legislature»

A bicameral legislature is a system where a country's law-making body is divided into two separate chambers or houses. Full definition
I'll scour my history books for dictatorships with bicameral legislatures and a separate executive branch and a Constitution.
I think this is in part because I don't see the point of bicameral legislatures, especially in a federal system.
In Japan, a bill was passed by the National Diet (Japan's bicameral legislature) in May this year to legalize crowdfunding in the country.
It is, for example, why the structure of the bicameral legislature (Congress) was designed the way it was.
In countries with a bicameral legislature, there is often no guarantee that the governing party also has a majority in the upper house, so some negotiation with other parties may still be necessary.
They include the «six no's»: no ideological pluralisation, no multiparty governance, no separation of power, no bicameral legislature, no federalism and no privatization.
Conservative columnist Joshua Nelson discusses the possibility of a constitutional convention in New York and how it could transform the state's bicameral legislature.
The bicameral legislature at the moment is essentially saying «I'm thinking of a number between 0 and 100.
We've had to put up with this ever since due to no concrete way of dealing swiftly with deadlocks between chambers of Congress (i.e. No dissolution trigger for the bicameral legislature).
That means that, all other things being equal, it is easier to pass a bill in Nebraska than other states with their bicameral legislatures.
It is a bicameral legislature, consisting of the lower New York State Assembly and the upper New York State Senate.
In practice the bicameral legislature needs a «minimum functionality» clause whereby the current crop gets ejected to an early election if failing to meet the minimum.
GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE The Belizean Government is a stable democracy with a bicameral legislature, and a member of the British Commonwealth, the United Nations and the Non-Alligned Nations.
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