Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a legislature composed of three chambers.
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- adjective of a legislature having three
chambers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Botha's reign, the experiment of broadening parliamentary representation to include coloureds and Indians in the so-called tricameral parliament was tried, and the government found itself under increasing pressure (or "total onslaught", as Botha put it) on all fronts because of its apartheid policy, internally and internationally.
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White South Africans must, in increasing numbers, also act in favour of a united, democratic and nonracial South Africa and reject unequivocally the so-called tricameral parliament and all institutions and "resolutions" based on the system of apartheid in all its elements.
STATEMENT AT THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES - LIBERATION MOVEMENT DIALOGUE, LUSAKA, MAY 5, 1987 1987
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Because they have no alternative, which makes the so-called tricameral parliament a total farce.
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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