bicameral
/bʌɪˈkam(ə)r(ə)l
/adjective
(Of a legislative body) having two chambers: a bicameral Parliament consisting of an appointed Senate and a popularly elected House of Assembly...
- We need a single legislative council, a bicameral European Parliament, with one house representing member states, and the other the European electorate.
- The legislative branch consists of a bicameral parliament with a Chamber of Counselors and a Chamber of Representatives.
- Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
Derivatives
bicameralism
- Of course, a main reason for bicameralism is that an upper house is supposed to check the lower house should ‘passion’ overtake the lower house and result in ill-conceived legislation.
- Repeal of the amendment would restore both federalism and bicameralism.
- Others, however, pertain to the structure of the government itself, and may not, in the first instance, have anything to do with individual rights at all, as, for example, a traditional adherence to bicameralism.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from bi- 'two' + Latin camera 'chamber' + -al.
Rhymes
- overcorrected
- overcorrection
- over-costly
- overcount
- overcounting
- overcover
- over-cram
- over-crammed
- overcredulity
- over-credulous
- overcritical
- over-criticism
- overcroft
- overcrop
- overcross
- overcrow
- overcrowd
- overcrowdedness
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rousseau, Théodore
- Rousseauvian
- roussette
- Roussillon
- roussin
- roust