Bicameral Definition

bī-kămər-əl
adjective
Composed of or based on two legislative chambers or branches.
A bicameral legislature.
American Heritage
Made up of or having two legislative chambers.
Congress is a bicameral legislature.
Webster's New World
Composed of or having two chambers, as an abscess divided by a septum.
American Heritage Medicine
The definition of bicameral is something with two lawmaking groups.
An example of bicameral is the United States Congress which has the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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(politics) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.

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Origin of Bicameral

  • bi– Latin camera chamber chamber –al

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bi- +‎ Latin camera (“chamber”) +‎ -al.

    From Wiktionary

Bicameral Sentence Examples

  • The adoption of a bicameral system made it possible to give due recognition to both principles.

  • During the colonial period and the early years of statehood the legislature was composed of one house, but the bicameral system was adopted in the constitution of 1790.

  • The controversy ended in the creation of a bicameral legislature in the lower branch of which the claim of the larger states found recognition, while in the upper, the Senate, each state had two votes.

  • Buffalo is governed under an amended city charter of 1896 by which the government is vested in a bicameral city council, and a mayor elected for a term of four years.

  • In Nova Scotia and Quebec the bicameral system of an upper and lower house is retained; in the other provinces legislation is left to a single representative assembly.

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