| De facto bicameralism offers a strong counterweight to any potential centralization of power. |
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| Since when does a Treaty have greater force than our basic constitutional principle of bicameralism? |
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| Repeal of the amendment would restore both federalism and bicameralism. |
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| In my opinion, it is a fallacious argument, when criticising the Senates, to use the argument of the slowness of bicameralism. |
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| Considerations about bicameralism and unicameralism therefore have their place within the complex process of building and maintaining democracy. |
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| This set the precedent of bicameralism for most governmental legislatures in the United States, including the eventual federal legislature. |
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| The material should serve as a guide for participants to familiarise themselves with the current status and future development of bicameralism. |
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| The recognition that society has a plural structure is more or less explicitly accepted in the debate on bicameralism. |
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| It is also important that we transfer the ideas and meaning of bicameralism to the European Union level. |
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| In Belgium the correspondents wrote that the majority of politicians, legal experts and public opinion is in favour of bicameralism. |
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| The theoretical arguments and the practice of modern democracies speak in favour of bicameralism. |
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| The examples of bicameralism in Europe demonstrate that it is good method of ensuring diverse representation of citizens in a democratic Europe. |
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| Advocates of the reform say ending Italy's perfect bicameralism in which the senate and chamber of deputies have equal legislative clout will help streamline the country. |
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| But that necessarily involves separate legislation, subject to bicameralism and presentment, above and beyond consent to the treaty itself. |
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| Its legitimacy, which relies on the double foundation of the people and of the member states, is reflected in bicameralism, which is one of the constants of federations. |
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| This political maneuver wanes on the doctrines of presentment and bicameralism, and the very notion of majority rule. |
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| The ideas that formed the basis of bicameralism trace back to theories developed in ancient Sumer, ancient India, later ancient Greece, and Rome. |
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| When this is the case, the legislature may be called an example of perfect bicameralism. |
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| Even if theoretically a serious disturbance or deadlock could occur in relations between two equal houses, i.e. in a complete bicameralism model, this could not happen in the model of incomplete bicameralism. |
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| Notwithstanding certain problems in practice in individual countries, I believe that global trends give a basis for optimism on the part of the proponents of bicameralism. |
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| If I return to the initial question of what to do with the idea of bicameralism, and try to respond to it, my answer is quite firm: I accept the idea of bicameralism and I support it. |
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| The Russian Federation retained bicameralism after the dissolution of the USSR and the transition from existing socialism to capitalism. |
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| Centralizing Features Federalism, separation of powers, bicameralism, and the electoral system all contribute to the decentralization of power in the United States, which serves the model of pluralist democracy. |
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| In the incomplete bicameralism group the position of the second house is subordinate to the first house in all respects: it has lesser competences and less decision-making power. |
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| There is also bicameralism in countries that are not federations, but have upper houses with representation on a territorial basis. |
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| In a few countries, bicameralism involves the juxtaposition of democratic and aristocratic elements. |
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| As a general matter, the constitutional process of bicameralism and presentment makes lawmaking hard. |
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| The second chamber has an equal position in the model of complete bicameralism, while in the model of incomplete bicameralism the second chamber plays a corrective role. |
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| The unicameral assembly is an unjust assembly. Since that date bicameralism has been a constant of the French constitutional system, with the exception of a short period of the second republic that came to an inglorious end. |
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| The Congress is structured in a strong, symmetric, and incongruent bicameralism. |
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| After the adoption of 1993 Russian Constitution bicameralism was introduced in some regions. |
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| In Europe bicameralism prevails over unicameralism. |
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| Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions. |
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| There is no argument for bicameralism in the smaller states, especially when, unlike New Zealand, a parliamentary system, they all have governors who have the veto power should the legislature pass notably unwise legislation. |
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| Another example of aristocratic bicameralism was the Japanese House of Peers, abolished after World War II and replaced with the present House of Councillors. |
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