unicameraladj.
/ˌjuːnᵻˈkam(ə)rəl/, /ˌjuːnᵻˈkam(ə)rl̩/, U.S. /ˌjunəˈkæm(ə)rəl/ Having, consisting of, or characterized by one legislative chamber.
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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 > [adjective] > having one or two chambers
bicameral1832
unicameral1853
1853 F. Lieber On Civil Liberty xxiv. 242 As a feature of Gallican liberty, must be mentioned here the unicameral system.
1890 Cent. Mag. Feb. 506/1 Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire abandoned the unicameral system after a short trial of it.
1894 Morley in Daily News 28 June 7/4 There is very little chance of our being..what is called unicameral.
Derivatives
uniˈcameralism n. the system of having only one legislative chamber.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > unicameralism
unicameralism1924
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 > fact of having only one chamber
unicameralism1924
1924 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 742 With rare unanimity the civilized world has rejected the nostrum of unicameralism, and has decided that two legislative chambers are..necessary to a modern democracy.
1957 A. C. Breckenridge One House for Two i. 4 Unicameralism at best simply became a thing of historical interest.
uniˈcameralist n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > unicameralism > adherent of
bicamerist1884
unicamerist1888
unicameralist1893
1893 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 1/3 Of course, I, as a Democrat, do not care for the two Chambers. I am a unicameralist.
uniˈcamerist n. an advocate of a unicameral system.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > unicameralism > adherent of
bicamerist1884
unicamerist1888
unicameralist1893
1888 Earl of Pembroke in Universal Rev. I. 101 The ideal of the unicamerists seems to me to be quite out of the region of practical politics.
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uniˈcamerally adv.
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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 > [adverb] > with one chamber
unicamerally1953
1953 Ann. Reg. 1952 101 Those sections [of the South Africa Act] can be amended by Parliament sitting unicamerally.
1989 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. (Connecticut Weekly section) 24/4 While the General Court split into two houses for voting purposes, its debates were conducted unicamerally.
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adj.1853