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2 days ago · The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
2 days ago · The House of Representatives shares equal responsibility for lawmaking with the U.S. Senate. As conceived by the framers of the Constitution, the House was to represent the popular will, and its members were to be directly elected by the people.
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4 days ago · Bicameral system, or bicameralism, a system of government in which the legislature comprises two houses. The system’s beginnings lie in the 17th-century English Parliament with the purpose of providing popular representation in government but checked by the representation of upper-class interests.
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17 hours ago · The Senate shares with the House of Representatives responsibility for all lawmaking within the United States. For an act of Congress to be valid, both houses must approve an identical document.
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19 hours ago · The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. The United States Senate and the lower chamber of Congress, the United States House of Representatives, comprise the federal bicameral legislature of the United States.
2 days ago · The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first past the post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.
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4 days ago · The upper house is anything but democratic, religion should be kept out, the lower house is not much better.
