bicameral parliamentary system

In India's bicameral parliamentary system, women represent a minuscule amount of each house.

New South Wales politics takes place in context of bicameral parliamentary system.

Thanks to the documents issued by the provisional revolutionary power, Romania has returned to a bicameral parliamentary system.

While both Canada and Australia have bicameral parliamentary systems, the composition of the upper house or Senate differs in each country.

Its powers are similar to those of lower houses under many other bicameral parliamentary systems and it is by far the dominant branch of the Oireachtas.

It also (modestly) reformed the bicameral parliamentary system and provided for the direct election of the members of the community and regional legislative councils.

Trinidad and Tobago is a republic with a two-party system and a bicameral parliamentary system based on the Westminster System.

Under the country's new post-communist Constitution of 1991, approved by a national referendum in 1991, Romania returned to a bicameral parliamentary system, in which the Senate is an elected body.

Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups (a point on which the government side had long insisted), the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system.

Western Australia politics takes place in context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system, and like other Australian states, Western Australia is part of the federation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.

Both the United Kingdom and Canada have the same form of bicameral parliamentary system with an elected lower chambers and appointed upper chambers, however elected members of the government are accountable to the electorate for those nominated to the upper house.

During his speech to the Chamber of Deputies, newly appointed Prime Minister Enrico Letta announced that a revision of the second part of the Italian Constitution is needed, in order to change the current bicameral parliamentary system and to abolish provinces.

In 1971, when President Anwar Sadat took office, he moved to the adoption of a new democratic constitution that would allow more freedoms, a return of a more sound parliamentary life and correct democratic practice with the return of political parties and a bicameral parliamentary system.

The new constitution turns Nepal into a constitutional monarchy, creates a bicameral parliamentary system with 265 members of parliament divided between the House of Representatives and the National Council, guarantees a division of powers between the various organs of State placing Nepal in the vanguard of countries on the Indian subcontinent.

Modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the "House of Representatives", "House of Commons", "Chamber of Deputies", "National Assembly", "Legislative Assembly", or "House of Assembly", by electoral rules.