Legislative chamber

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The Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the United Kingdom's legislative bodies.

A legislative chamber or house is a

hexacameral
) legislature.

Bicameralism

The legislative chamber of the United Kingdom Parliament's lower house, the House of Commons.

In a bicameral legislature, the two bodies are often referred to as an upper and a lower house, where the latter is often regarded as more particularly the representatives of the people. The lower house is almost always the originator of

taxation
.

A parliament's lower house is usually composed of at least 100

House of Commons) has 650 members, but the upper house (the House of Lords) currently has slightly more members than the lower house, and at one time (before the exclusion of most of the hereditary peers
) had considerably more.

Merging of chambers

Until 1953, the

Qualified unicameralism
.

Floor and committee

The floor is the name for the full assembly, and a committee is a small deliberative assembly that is usually subordinate to the floor. In the United Kingdom, either chamber may opt to take some business such as detailed consideration of a Bill on the Floor of the House instead of in Committee.[2]

Security

The building that houses the Chambers of a Parliament is usually equipped with an internal police[3] and in some, the public force is not allowed access without authorisation.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Legislative Organization & Procedures. The National Conference of State Legislatures. www.ncsl.org. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  2. ^ UK Parliament Glossary, http://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/floor-of-the-house/, accessed 1 July 2015
  3. ^ Under the responsibility of the Usher of the black rod, in Westminster-style Parliaments.
  4. ^ In Italy the judge could raise conflict of powers against the House asking the Constitutional Court - in accordance with decision no. 120/2014 - for access to the Palace to perform his duties: Buonomo, Giampiero (2014). "Il diritto pretorio sull'autodichia, tra resistenze e desistenze". Forum di Quaderni Costituzionale. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-12.