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单词 second chamber
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second chamber
second chamber n. in a legislature consisting of two chambers, the one which has chiefly the function of revising the measures prepared and passed by other; also attributive.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > a chamber or house of > upper
lower house1523
upper house1532
upper chamber1753
senate1776
state senate1791
second chamber1828
1828 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. Apr. 282 In whichever way selected, this second chamber would have been..inveterately hostile to nearly every necessary reform.
1861 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. xiii. 231 I set little value on any check which a Second Chamber can apply to a democracy otherwise unchecked.
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