WHAT IS A BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE?
In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. A parliament is a type of legislative body in which the majority party usually also holds the most senior executive position, often called the prime minister. A bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature, therefore, is a legislature which consists of two chambers or Houses. The relationship between the two chambers varies; in some cases, they have equal power, while in others, one chamber is clearly superior to the other. It is also commonplace in most federal systems to have a bicameral legislature. In the United States, for example, one chamber, the Senate, has an equal number of members representing each constituent state, while the members of the other chamber, the House, number according to each state’s population.
