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Bicameral

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The division of a legislative or judicial body into two components or chambers.

The Congress of the United States is a bicameral legislature, since it is divided into two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives.


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This victory was the result of tremendous League activity, throughout the country and on the Hill, in support of the bicameral bill to renew the VRA, "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006," H.
The Tibetan government would be comprised of a popularly elected chief executive, a bicameral legislature and an independent legal system.
In such a situation, the religious person cannot but become a bicameral self, holding onto the community's mediations by way of a self largely shaped by secularity.
 
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