Concept

Lower house

Overview

A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where the other chamber is the upper house. Although styled as "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise exert significant political influence.

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Philosophers who discussed Lower house

• Netherlands

Related ideas

• Government
• Hungary
• Italy
• Norway
• Romania
• Australia
• Upper house

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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