A unicameral (single house) versus bicameral (two house) parliament is dependent on the governance system of the individual nation. The United Kingdom and India for example have upper and lower houses of Parliament. The Israeli Knesset is a unicameral legislature in comparison.
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A unicameral parliament is a legislature consisting of one house. The most common alternative form is a bicameral parliament, where the legislature consists of two houses whose members are selected using somewhat different criteria. France is an example of a coutry with a unicameral parliament. The United Kingdom is an example of a bicameral parliament, the the houses being the House of Common (with members selected by popular vote) and the House of Lords (until recently, consisting of any member of the nobility who chose to attend).
unicameral A one house legislature is a unicameral. A two house legislature is a bicameral.
Question Did the Great Compromise create a unicameral or bicameral Congress?
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Unicameral is a legislative system where law is made in one house. The US state of Nebraska has the only unicameral legislature in the United States.
It was the New Jersey Plan that proposed the idea of an unicameral legislature with equal representation. It was ultimately rejected.