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Ideally, the upper house is gradually stripped of its powers, as it's undemocratic by design. IIRC it's actually somewhat rare to have a bicameral legislature
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Ideally, the upper house is gradually stripped of its powers, as it's undemocratic by design.
IIRC it's actually somewhat rare to have a bicameral legislature where both houses have roughly symmetrical powers.
- delichon 1y ago"Undemocratic by design" applies to the whole Constitution, since everything in it requires supermajorities to change. A legislature is undemocratic in that it restricts voting to representatives. Due process is another constraint on democracy. This is to say that "undemocratic" is not necessarily a bug, since pure democracy is rule by the whim of the mob.
- yesfitz 1y agoIs that ideal for a bicameral legislature's ability to mitigate the risk of populist takeover? Or a step on the way to the ideal of direct democracy?