Monocamerism

The monocamerism or monocameralism (or unicamerism or unicameralism ) is a Système Parlement surface with only one Room. He was a long time regarded as the mark of a republican Régime authentically , although there are also several monarchical countries like the New Zealand, the Denmark, and the Sweden, which abolished the “Upper House” of their Parliament, to create a legislature monocamérale. The Nebraska with the the United States of America and the Queensland in Australia are the only federate States having a Parliament monocaméral, but with the Canada, all the provinces abolished their Upper Houses. The last province to maintain the system bicameral was the Quebec, which abolishes it in 1968. Although the Norway has also a Parliament monocaméral, its members elect among them an assembly four times fewer than theirs to create a Upper House, or Lagting , while the others form a Lower House, or Odelsting .

The Adjectival S devoted, in French, to indicate the two types of Political system, are: monocameralist, or monocamerist or unicaméral, and bicameral. Monocamerist and bicamerist, as for them, are substantives used to designate the partisans of the systems monocaméral and bicameral.

Monocamerism in the world

Country having a Parliament monocaméral

In Congo-Kinshasa

The Democratic republic of Congo had a Parliament monocaméral during the second Republic. The Constitution of transition from 2003 re-establishes a bicameral Parliament.

In France

First Republic French
Second Republic French
It also appeared in the text of the Constitution of the Fourth French Republic which was rejected by the first referendum of 1946 (to become bicameral).

It should be specified that, the shortly after the Révolution, the monocameralism is preferred with the English and American parliamentary systems (bicameral) by the Components under the terms of a principle which had the hard life: the national representation, i.e. the delegation of the sovereignty of the Nation to a room, cannot be divided into two bodies, awaited that there is only one Nation, one and indivisible. To separate the bodies representatives the Nation thus amounts splitting the latter.

It should in addition be noted that the English example, however oldest of all, was not followed for another reason: the House of Lords, as his name indicates it, represented the Noblesse Kingdom. In France, it was unthinkable to so much give a weight to the nobility which had just been shot down to concede the creation of a legislative room which represents a fraction of the people and not its totality. That comes from the same principle of unit of the national Souveraineté, but also owing to the fact that a deputy in France was not theoretically to only represent the interests of its voters or any groups, but those of the whole nation.

In Switzerland

In Swiss, a majority of cantonal Parliaments are of form monocaméral contrary at the federal level where the federal Assemblée is composed of two rooms

See too

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Bicameral system

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