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| | Bicameralism: Introduction |
 | | The compromise of 29 June gave the Federal Constitution's bicameralism its peculiar cast. | | | All the more was this needed in a republican government where predominance of the legislature, and of the popular house within the legislature, might be taken for granted. | | | While equality of state representation pointed in one direction, the abandonment of voting by states (as in the Continental Congress) pointed in another. |
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http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch12I.html
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| | This replaced the bicameral legislature set up in 1909 under the South Africa Act 1909 (UK), and itself gave way to a single chamber legislature which was elected in 1994 after the dismantling of apartheid. | | | On independence, the colonies became states, and their bicameral arrangements were influential in drawing up the relevant parts of the federal constitutions, when federation took place. | | | A fascinating link to the present is similarity of the latter provision regarding appointments to the need for Senate confirmation of major presidential appointments in the United States.[30] 31. |
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http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n3/preece93.txt
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| | Bicameralism in the Czech Republic |
| | Electoral laws, the Rules of Procedure of the Senate and the so-called Liaison Law require a simple majority vote in both parliamentary houses to be adopted. | | | Together with the Constitutional Charter, the bicameral parliamentary system was approved as an axiom. | | | Before holding the elections into the bicameral Parliament, absolutism was re-instituted in Austria by the Emperor’s proclamation of the Decree of New Year’s Eve (Silvesterpatent) in 1851. |
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http://www.senat.cz/zajimavosti/bikameralismus-eng.html
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| | Bicameralism in Africa and the Arab world |
| | This also appears to be the case in Morocco, where the Chamber of Councillors is vested with far-reaching legislative and supervisory powers (egalitarian bicameralism for examination of organic laws, the shuttle system, and the power to vote a motion of no confidence). | | | It is true that if a head of State nominates people from among his or her own circle, this might undermine the role of the Parliament, but on the other hand it could reinforce his or her position where they are traditional chieftains. | | | Thus, in South Africa, the National Council of Provinces has the right to veto bills concerning those provinces, and this veto can only be overridden by a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly. |
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http://www.senat.fr/senatsdumonde/bicamerafrica2001english.html
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| | Association of European Senates - The Senates and the Quality of Legislation |
| | Bicameralism, however, becomes egalitarian for "organic laws relative to the Senate", which have to be voted on the same terms by the two assemblies without the possibility of a "final say" by the National Assembly. | | | In Belgium, for example, it is rarely the Senate that is the reason for the slowness of the adoption of an act. | | | Sometimes, we have the feeling that political groups or parties, or ministers, consider the introduction of a bill as a means of communication, as if adding laws to laws were by definition positive, an assertion that has absolutely not been proven. |
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http://www.senate.be/doc/misc/seneurop_13-11-2001_en.html
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| | Forum of the World's Senates |
| | Re-created is indeed the appropriate term, since a bicameral Parliament, known as the " Council of the Kingdom ", had already been formed under the aegis of HM Norodom Sihanouk Varman in 1947, with a National Assembly and a Senate. | | | The Belgian Senate has 71 Senators: 40 are directly elected from constituencies, 21 are elected at regional level and 10 are co-opted by the foregoing 61. | | | In addition, the Supreme Court, whose role is to interpret the Constitution and if necessary to try members of the government, is composed of senators. |
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http://www.senat.fr/senatsdumonde/english/cri1.html
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| | Senators Credit Democracy For Growing Of Bicameral System |
| | The senators said bicameralism was necessary as a modern means of ensuring the separation of powers without which a society has no constitutional basis. | | | Recognising the significant resurgence of bicameralism amongst contemporary parliaments, the senators delivered a final declaration that identified the system's key strengths. | | | Gabon's senate speaker, George Rawiri, said that the system played a cohesive role by acting as a guarantor of stability in the transition to democracy. |
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http://www.somaliawatch.org/archive/000315103.htm
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| | John O. McGinnis, Presidential Review as Constitutional Restoration, 51 Duke L. J. 901 (2001) |
| | For instance, the Supreme Court surely would hold null and void the attempt to enforce a law that was not passed by the Senate. | | | The Framers did not have a high opinion of the beneficence of legislation that could not pass the high hurdle of bicameralism and the presidential veto. | | | For similar reasons, the president has incentives to revive the restraints on lawmaking that the original Constitution imposed through bicameralism and the presidential veto (tricameralism) and that have been eroded by the modern administrative state. |
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http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/articles/DLJ51P901.HTM
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| | Jointly or separately - INQ7.net |
| | When the 1986 Constitutional Commission was drafting the current Constitution, the debate on bicameralism or unicameralism was intense. | | | I begin with a fundamental principle: We have opted for a bicameral Congress. | | | Commissioner “Soc” Rodrigo, speaking from 12 years’ experience in the Senate, gave a practical illustration which, I suspect, is also operative today. |
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http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=2&story_id=46911&col=136
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| | SENATEUROPE Previous meetings |
| | It was the occasion for us to judge just how well bicameralism can defend democratic values, be it for larger or smaller States, for federations or for centralised States, for monarchies or for republics, or for presidential or for parliamentary systems. | | | In Germany, the bicameral system has long been an integral part not only of our constitutional law but also of our actual constitution. | | | There is absolutely no doubt that, under your guidance, the French Senate has become the best, most dynamic, efficient, warm and hospitable of defenders of the bicameralism to which we are all so attached, but which is regularly subjected to questioning, or indeed attacks. |
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http://www.senateurope.org/eng/08112000.html
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| | Does the constitution require the states to have bicameral legislatures? | | | Why is bicameralism key to making the Great Compromise work? ¡ Å Z Å $ ó
A ¨ Checks and Balances ¡ Z ¨ How is does bicameralism it fit into the checks and balances of the US Constitution? |
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http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/courses/adlawf04/guides/chapter07_II.ppt
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| | James Madison's defense of Bicameralism |
| | The equality of representation in the senate is another point, which, being evidently the result of compromise between the opposite pretensions of the large and the small states, does not call for much discussion. | | | Madison continues his defense of the proposed Constitution with a discussion of bicameralism. | | | The federal constitution avoids this error; and what merits particular notice, it provides for the last in a mode which increases the security for the first. |
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http://www.lawandliberty.org/JM_bicam.htm
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| | Poli Sci 102 Web : bicameralism |
| | BICAMERALISM - Division of the Congress into two chambers, House and Senate. | | | A text summary of the clickable map above, meant for web-crawlers and other automatic tools: |
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http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/x102/PSweb/bicameralism.htm
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| | Meeting of the Association of European Senates, June 2002, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| | Support for bicameralism among politicians, experts and general public opinion in individual countries | | | This contribution is also based on responses obtained from senate representatives and ECPRD correspondents. | | | This section is based on responses to questions the National Council sent in March to representatives of European senates and the ECPRD correspondents of all European unicameral and bicameral parliaments. |
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http://www.sigov.si/cgi-bin/spl/dsvet/en/news/research_intro.htm
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| | Bicameralism (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Julian Jaynes coined the term bicameralism by way of analogy to governmental bicameralism. | | | A person in the bicameral state would behave as a typical schizophrenic. | | | It has also been argued that this state of mind is present in members of cults. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
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| | FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Article I: Annotations pg. 2 of 58 |
| | Events since 1787, of course, have altered both the separation- of-powers and the federalism bases of bicameralism, in particular the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment resulting in the popular election of Senators, so that the differences between the two Chambers are today less pronounced. | | | Hence, the Constitution's requirement that before lawmaking could be carried out bills must be deliberated in two Houses, their Members beholden to different constituencies, was in pursuit of this observation from experience. |
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article01/02.html
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| | The Bicameralism System |
| | The main reason for using the Bicameral System is to ensure that the laws and legislations are made after careful studies. | | | The Bicameral System prevents the rushing of laws that can result in mistakes and ambiguities that can also be unrealistic. | | | Furthermore, the system of the Bicameralism will ensure the success of the legislative branch through the system of Checks and Balances. |
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http://www.shoora.gov.ye/eng_conf_papr2.htm
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| | THE THEORY OF BICAMERALISM • argued for the principle of tripartite government, composed of a legislative, executive, and judicial branch. | | | • suggested, the legislature ought to consist of two chambers with "separate views and interests." THE THEORY OF BICAMERALISM • ensure that divergent perspectives were brought to bear • to avoid rash and poor • principal virtue of bicameralism was its protection against legislative tyranny. | | | The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature inot different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different priciples of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit. |
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http://www.tamiu.edu/~jnorris/Bicameralism.txt
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| | I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWERS BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS |
| | The rules of law derived from the requirements of bicameralism/presentment and the Appointments Clause have the clear and powerful effect of invalidating any inconsistent congressional action. | | | Just as the textual requirement of bicameralism and presentment limits the means by which Congress may legislate, so the anti-aggrandizement principle limits the means by which Congress may influence the execution (or adjudication) of the laws. | | | The Appointments Clause's list of those who may appoint officers is exclusive, and Congress cannot authorize anyone else to appoint officers of the United States. |
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| | Boffoblog: That Pesky Bicameralism |
| | Which is one reason I found it amusing that the House lifted the ban present since the days of Thomas Jefferson on calling out senators by name. | | | The days of bicameral respect apparently are over, and for those who care about the tone of debate in politics this is not good news. | | | In other words, not only has the House GOP shown itself unwilling to share the sandbox with others, now they want to shit in it, too. |
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http://boffo.typepad.com/boffoblog/2005/01/that_pesky_bica.html
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| | Globalism and bicameralism |
| | Unable to understand the legal principles enunciated in previous cases, bicameral judges are ignoring the theory of precedent designed to give the law consistency, and adopting instead a ‘judicial activist’ approach, making up the law to fit each case. | | | Increasingly judges are seeing their role as giving legal effect to socialist social policies, and facilitating the move to globalism and world government by circumventing Constitutions. | | | Even when Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, bicamerals in the American congress failed to see that as sufficient reason to remove him from office, such is the degree to which this phenomenon has permeated the society. |
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http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/economic/190799.htm
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| | Free-Essays.us - Australian Bicameralism |
| | The most often stated function of an Australian upper house is to act as a house of review. | | | That the Legislative Councils and the Senate perform the vital role of double checking legislation from the lower houses is a central tenant of bicameralism as an ideal. | | | These are just some of the changes that could be made to parliaments in Australia in order to provide a more equitable, democratic and stable framework in which to govern. |
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| | Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde (IIK) : research : bicameralism |
| | The study of the functions and the functioning of the second chambers (Senates) in the Latin American presidential regimes is framed in the context of the current academic debate on the process of democratic consolidation and the deficits of the Latin American democracies. | | | The Senates and its members in the Southern Cone, Paper presented at the Anniversary Conference (1964-2004) of the Society for Latin American Studies, 2-4 April 2004, Leiden, The Netherlands | | | Bicameralism in Latin America: functions and functioning of the senate in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay |
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http://www.duei.de/iik/show.php/en/content/research/bicameralism.html
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| | An Examination of Bicameralism vs. Unicameralism in Federal and Unitary States. | | | A system of government in which the legislature is divided into two chambers, an upper and lower house. | | | Find almost any book you\'re looking for at a discount, including \"Bicameralism.\" |
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http://www.jointctr.org/?Category=bicameralism
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| | EconPapers: Government Corruption and Legislative Procedures: is One Chamber Better Than Two? |
| | We also show that bicameralism with amendment rights (open rule) is better than bicameralism without amendment rights (closed rule). | | | Comparing a unicameral and a bicameral legislative procedure, we show that bicameralism improves legislators' accountability when the same party controls the two chambers but not necessarily, if the two chambers are controlled by opposite parties. | | | Lobbies and citizens have opposing interests in a public policy and offer money and votes, respectively, to legislators to obtain their preferred policy. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Bicameralism: Books |
| | These hypotheses are illustrated and tested with data from the French Fifth Republic, and supplemented with data from Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United States,... | | | It would also serve as a useful primer for those interested in institutional reform... | | | Certainly this comparative study confirms that bicameralism continues to matter.' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/052158972X
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| | Bicameralism and Party Politics in Germany: an Empirical Social Choice Analysis |
| | This paper analyses whether and how party politics transform German bicameralism. | | | Bicameralism and Party Politics in Germany: an Empirical Social Choice Analysis | | | In comparison to the basic bicameral model, hypotheses on bicameral conflict and policy stability are tested in the case of similar and different party majorities in the two-dimensional policy space of German labour politics. |
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http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/post/Vol49-3/konig.htm
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| | SSRN-A Theory of Bicameralism by Giovanni Facchini, Cecilia Testa |
| | We show that bicameralism with restricted amendment rights provides the best incentives, while unrestricted amendment rights result in a status quo bias. | | | Arguments suggesting that bicameralism is a panacea against the abuse of power by elected legislators should therefore be taken with due caution. | | | Whenever the pressure group enjoys some bargaining power, two chambers might instead provide better discipline, depending on the rules governing their interaction, and in particular the allocation of the decision powers among them. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=681223
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| | Apropos of Something » Mmm… bicameralism |
| | He was discussing the U.S. Congress and its two-house structure, but instead of referring to it as a bicameral legislature, he kept mistakenly pronouncing it as “bicaramel.” You know, as in caramel candy – only with twice the caramel, I suppose. | | | He went on to repeat the gaffe about a zillion times over the course of his ten-minute presentation. | | | Whenever I find myself teaching legislative politics, I can’t help but think back to a class presentation delivered by a fellow student back in my own undergrad days. |
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http://wiw.org/~jess/archives/2005/04/07/mmm-bicameralism
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| | While the primary problem confronting democratic theorists in the past several decades has been majority rule instability, recent formal results suggest that this problem is diminished by long-standing constitutional provisions such as bicameralism. | | | This paper reports a series of experiments testing whether individuals partitioned into two chambers do in fact behave as the formal theory of bicameralism predicts. | | | Bicameralism should theoretically be much more likely to create a set of stable and undominated outcomes--a core. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~lsq/miller1.htm
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| | Week 7: Bicameralism |
| | Is there a drawback or downside to bicameralism? | | | 1) What are the main justifications for bicameralism? | | | 2) How do the institutions of bicameralism vary? |
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http://weber.ucsd.edu/~keferree/Week7_ps221.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Bicameralism: Search Results All Products |
| | Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World by Samuel C. Patterson (Editor), Anthony Mughan (Editor) (Hardcover - May 1999) | | | Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World by Samuel C. Patterson (Editor), Anthony Mughan (Editor) (Paperback - April 1999) | | | Bicameralism by George Tsebelis (Author), et al (Hardcover - June 13, 1997) |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/external-search?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&search-type=ss&index=blended&tag=zeebebecom04-20&keyword=Bicameralism
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| | bicameralism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "bicameralism" is defined. | | | We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word bicameralism: | | | bicameralism : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=bicameralism&ls=a
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