Sentences with phrase «unicameral legislature»
A unicameral legislature refers to a system of government where there is only one legislative body or a single chamber for making laws and decisions. Full definition
Like other constitutional changes that Johns and some of his colleagues say would be perfect for discussion at a convention, such as legislative term limits, a unicameral legislature undoubtedly won't be pushed by just a lone person.
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Either we need to adopt nonpartisan redistricting or we need to do what Nebraska did and adopt a unicameral legislature... Ideally, we'd do both.
A unicameral legislature with 75 members making $ 75,000 a year and no outside income allowed.
Mark John's proposal of a unicameral legislature makes a lot of sense — provided legislators did not get to pick their constituents as was done in the last round of redistricting.
So, are there any ways of tinkering with a unicameral legislature in order to add in some check on the majorities power, while still keeping the system unicameral?
«Members were fine giving mayor three years, but again, this is not a unicameral legislature and the Senate would only want to give one year,» Heastie said.
In addition, Nebraska has a unicameral legislature - meaning there are 49 state senators and no members of the state House of Representatives.
Nebraska, for instance, has a unicameral legislature.
The bill includes maps for both the unicameral legislature and Nebraska's three Congressional seats.
At the 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, earning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats.
The exception is Nebraska, where there's only two people because they have a unicameral legislature.»
A bill drafted by the unicameral legislature's education committee, Land expected to be taken up as early as late last week, bars residents of a district that affiliates with another from full participation in open enrollment...
This state, for example, is the only one in the union to have a unicameral legislature at the state level and it can boast the most miles of winding rivers of any state in the US.
cpast, you have chosen one state out of how many that has a unicameral legislature?