The definition of "unicameral" is one legislative house.
The definition of "bicameral" is two legislative houses.
The Second Continental Congress that was convened in Philadelphia consisted of one legislative house; therefore it was unicameral.
In the U.S., Congress is bicameral. There are two branches of Congress, the Senate and the House.
A unicameral congress is a legislature consisting of one body, group, or "house", as opposed to a bicameral congress, which has two (and a tricameral congress would have three). (Keep in mind that those words have the same prefixes as unicycle, bicycle and tricycle.)
The second continental Congress.
The Continental Association
creation of a bicameral Congress
Question Did the Great Compromise create a unicameral or bicameral Congress?
In the U.S., Congress is bicameral. There are two branches of Congress, the Senate and the House.
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no it's bicameral
The Legislature is a bicameral Congress of the Union, composed by a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate.
Unicameral is a term used in government for a legislature that has one house. This was the structure of the Continental Congress in the 1700s.
The U.S. Congress is bicameral legislature, because it is a two-house legislature; Senate and the House of Representatives
The Legislature is a bicameral Congress of the Union, composed by a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate.
A unicameral legislature has one body of lawmakers and a bicameral legislature has two bodies of lawmakers. The congress of the United States is bicameral. One body of the legislature is the senate and the other is the house. The legislatures of all the states but one are bicameral. The English Parliament is bicameral. One house is Lords, the other commons.
A legislature having two houses (as in the US Congress and the British Parliament) is said to be "bicameral" (from the Latin for "two chambers"). A legislature having a single house is said to be "unicameral".
So Congress would have two houses.
A unicameral congress is a legislature consisting of one body, group, or "house", as opposed to a bicameral congress, which has two (and a tricameral congress would have three). (Keep in mind that those words have the same prefixes as unicycle, bicycle and tricycle.)