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An upper house, sometimes called a Senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house.[1] The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restricted power than the lower house. Examples of upper houses in countries include the United Kingdom's House of Lords, India's Rajya Sabha, Russia's Federation Council, Ireland's Seanad, Malaysia's Dewan Negara, Germany's Bundesrat and the United States Senate.
A legislature composed of only one house (and which therefore has neither an upper house nor a lower house) is described as unicameral.
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1 Possible specific characteristics
2 Powers
2.1 Parliamentary systems
2.2 Presidential systems
3 Institutional structure
4 Abolition
5 Titles of upper houses
5.1 Common terms
5.2 Unique titles
6 Notes and references
Possible specific characteristics[edit]
An upper house is usually different from the lower house in at least one of the following respects:
Powers:
In a parliamentary system, it often has much less power than the lower house. Therefore, in certain countries the Upper House
votes on only limited legislative matters, such as constitutional amendments.
cannot initiate legislation (or cannot initiate legislation on money).
cannot vote a motion of no confidence against the government (or such an act is much less common), while the lower house always can.
In a presidential system:
It may have equal or nearly equal power with the lower house.
It may have specific powers not granted to the lower house. For example:
It may give advice and consent to some executive decisions (e.g. appointments of cabinet ministers, judges or ambassadors).
It may have the sole power to try impeachments against officials of the executive, following enabling resolutions passed by the lower house.
It may have the sole power to ratify treaties.
Status:
In some countries, its members are not popularly elected; membership may be indirect, hereditary or by appointment.
Its members may be elected with a different voting system than that used to elect the lower house (for example, upper houses in Australia and its states are usually elected by proportional representation, whereas lower houses are not).
Less populated states, provinces, or administrative divisions may be better represented in the upper house than in the lower house; representation is not completely proportional to population (or not at all).
Members' terms may be longer than in the lower house and maybe for life.
Members may be elected in portions, for staggered terms, rather than all at one time.
In some countries, the upper house cannot be dissolved at all, or can be dissolved only in more limited circumstances than the lower house.
It typically has fewer members or seats than the lower house (though notably not in the United Kingdom parliament).
It has usually a higher age of candidacy than the lower house.
Powers[edit]
The French Senate, hosted in the Palais du Luxembourg
Parliamentary systems[edit]
In parliamentary systems the upper house is frequently seen as an advisory or "revising" chamber; for this reason, its powers of direct action are often reduced in some way. Some or all of the following restrictions are often placed on upper houses:
Lack of control over the executive branch. (On the other hand, in the US and many other presidential systems, the Senate or upper chamber has more control over the composition of the Cabinet and the administration generally, through its prerogative of confirming the president's nominations to senior offices.)
No absolute veto of proposed legislation, though suspensive vetoes are permitted in some states.
In countries where it can veto legislation (like the Netherlands), it may not be able to amend the proposals.
A reduced or even absent role in initiating legislation.
No power to block supply, or budget measures (a rare example of a Parliamentary upper house that does possess this power is the Australian Senate, which notably exercised that power in 1975)
In parliamentary democracies and among European upper houses the Italian Senate is a notable exception to these general rules, in that it has the same powers as its lower counterpart: any law can be initiated in either house and must be approved in the same form by both houses. Additionally, a Government must have the consent of both to remain in office, a position which is known as "perfect bicameralism" or "equal bicameralism".
The role of a revising chamber is to scrutinise legislation that may have been drafted over-hastily in the lower house and to suggest amendments that the lower house may nevertheless reject if it wishes to. An example is the British House of Lords. Under the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the House of Lords can no longer prevent the passage of most bills, but it must be given an opportunity to debate them and propose amendments, and can thereby delay the passage of a bill with which it disagrees. Bills can only be delayed for up to one year before the Commons can use the Parliament Act, although economic bills can only be delayed for one month. It is sometimes seen as having a special role of safeguarding the uncodified Constitution of the United Kingdom and important civil liberties against ill-considered change. The British House of Lords has a number of ways to block legislation and to reject it, however, the House of Commons can eventually use the Parliament Act to force something through. The Commons will occasionally bargain and negotiate with the Lords such as when the Labour Government of 1999 tried to expel all Hereditary Peers from the Lords, and the Lords threatened to wreck the Government's entire legislative agenda and to block every bill which was sent to the chamber. This led to negotiations between Viscount Cranborne the then Shadow Leader of the House, and the Labour Government which resulted in the Weatherill Amendment to the House of Lords Act 1999 which preserved 92 Hereditary Peers in the house. The Parliament Act is not valid with all legislation and is a very rarely used backup plan.
The chamber of the House of Lords, the UK's Upper House
Even without a veto, an upper house may defeat legislation. Its opposition may give the lower chamber a chance to reconsider or even abandon a controversial measure. It can also delay a bill so that it does not fit within the legislative schedule, or until a general election produces a new lower house that no longer wishes to proceed with the bill.
Nevertheless, some states have long retained powerful upper houses. For example, the consent of the upper house to legislation may be necessary (though, as noted above, this seldom extends to budgetary measures). Constitutional arrangements of states with powerful upper houses usually include a means to resolve situations where the two houses are at odds with each other.
In recent times, Parliamentary systems have tended to weaken the powers of upper houses relative to their lower counterparts. Some upper houses have been abolished completely (see below); others have had their powers reduced by constitutional or legislative amendments. Also, conventions often exist that the upper house ought not to obstruct the business of government for frivolous or merely partisan reasons. These conventions have tended to harden with a passage of time.
Presidential systems[edit]
In presidential systems, the upper house is frequently given other powers to compensate for its restrictions:
Executive appointments, to the cabinet and other offices, usually require its approval.
It frequently has the sole authority to give consent to or denounce foreign treaties.
Institutional structure[edit]
There is a variety of ways an upper house's members are assembled: by director indirection election, appointment, heredity, or a mixture of these. The German Bundesrat is composed of members of the cabinets of the German states, in most cases the state premier and several ministers; they are delegated and can be recalled anytime. In a very similar way, the Council of the European Union is composed of national ministers.
Many upper houses are not directly elected but appointed: either by the head of government or in some other way. This is usually intended to produce a house of experts or otherwise distinguished citizens, who would not necessarily be returned in an election. For example, members of the Canadian Senate are appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister.
In the past, some upper houses had seats that were hereditary, such as in the British House of Lords until 1999 and in the Japanese House of Peers until it was abolished in 1947.
It is also common that the upper house consists of delegates chosen by state governments or local officials. Members of the Rajya Sabha in India are nominated by various states and union territories, while 12 of them are nominated by the President of India. Similarly, at the state level, one-third of the members of the Vidhan Parishad are nominated by local governments, one-third by sitting legislators, and the rest are elected by select members of the electorate. The United States Senate was chosen by the State legislatures until the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913.
The upper house may be directly elected but in different proportions to the lower house - for example, the Senate of Australia and the United States have a fixed number of elected members from each state, regardless of the population.
Abolition[edit]
Main article: List of abolished upper houses
Many jurisdictions, such as Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Mauritania, New Zealand, Peru, Sweden, Turkey, Venezuela and many Indian states as well as Brazilian states and Canadian provinces, once possessed upper houses but abolished them to adopt unicameral systems. Newfoundland had a Legislative Council prior to joining Canada, as did Ontario when it was Upper Canada and Quebec from 1791 (as Lower Canada) to 1968. Nebraska is the only state in the United States with a unicameral legislature, having abolished its lower house in 1934.
The Australian state of Queensland also once had an appointed Legislative Council before abolishing it in 1922. All other Australian states continue to have bicameral systems (the two territories have always been unicameral).
Like Queensland, the German state of Bavaria had an appointed upper house, the Senate of Bavaria, from 1946 to 1999.
The Senate of the Philippines was abolished – and restored – twice: from 1935 to 1945 when a unicameral National Assembly convened, and from 1972 to 1987 when Congress was closed, and later a new constitution was approved instituting a unicameral Parliament. The Senate was re-instituted with the restoration of a bicameral Congress via a constitutional amendment in 1941, and via adoption of a new constitution in 1987.
A previous government of Ireland (the 31st Dáil) promised a national referendum on the abolition of its upper house, the Seanad Éireann, during the 24th Seanad session. By a narrow margin, the Irish public voted to retain it. Conservative-leaning Fine Gael and Left-leaning Sinn Féin both supported the abolition, while the centrist Fianna Fáil was alone among major parties in supporting the retention of the Seanad.[2]
Titles of upper houses[edit]
Common terms[edit]
Senate - by far the most common
Legislative Council
Federal Council (Germany, Austria)
Council of States (Switzerland, India, Sudan)
First Chamber (Netherlands and formerly Sweden)
Unique titles[edit]
National Council – Slovenia
House of Peoples – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Protsaphea – Cambodia
Chambre des Pairs (Chamber of Peers) – France under the Bourbon Restoration
Chamber of the Most Worthy Peers of the Kingdom (Câmara dos Digníssimos Pares do Reino) - Kingdom of Portugal
Főrendiház (House of Magnates) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, also called simply Felsőház (Upper House)
Rajya Sabha (Council of the States) and Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) – India
Regional Representative Council (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah) – Indonesia
House of Councillors (Japanese: 参議院, translit. Sangiin) – Japan
Dewan Negara (National Hall) – Malaysia
Federation Council - Russia
House of Elders – Republic of Somaliland. The term senate is derived from Latin senex, meaning "old man".
National Council of Provinces – South Africa
House of Lords – Seen in the United Kingdom, Ireland, as well as formerly in German-speaking monarchies (Herrenhaus), e.g. the Austrian House of Lords and the Prussian House of Lords
House of Federation – Ethiopia
House of Nationalities [3]- Myanmar
Seanad Éireann – Ireland
Notes and references[edit]
Jump up ^ Bicameralism (1997) by George Tsebelis
Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24404157
Jump up ^ "National Parliament - Beta". www.amyothahluttaw.gov.mm. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
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For the rock band of the same name, see Humble Pie.
To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to face humiliation and subsequently apologize for a serious mistake. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.
Etymology[edit]
The expression derives from umble pie, a pie filled with the chopped or minced parts of a beast's 'pluck' – the heart, liver, lungs or 'lights' and kidneys, especially of deer but often other meats. Umble evolved from numble (after the French nomble), meaning 'deer's innards'.[1][2]
It has occasionally been suggested that 'umbles' were considered inferior food and that in medieval times, the pie was often served to lower-class people, possibly following speculation in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there is little evidence for this.[citation needed] Early references in cookbooks such as Liber Cure Cocorum present a grand dish with exotic spices.
Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Since the sound "h" is dropped in many dialects, the phrase was rebracketed as "humble pie".[citation needed] While "umble" is now gone from the language, the phrase remains, carrying the fossilized word as an idiom.
See also[edit]
Eating crow
References[edit]
Jump up ^ [1] Archived December 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ "Encyclopedia - Umble Pie". Gourmet Britain. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
External links[edit]
Look up humble pie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Umble pie at The Foods of England
Traditional English Diets
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values: Discussion about the content page [ctrl-alt-t]

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p-variants
navigation
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p-variants-label

values: Past revisions of this page [ctrl-alt-h]

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p-cactions
navigation
vectorMenu emptyPortlet
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mw-wiki-logo
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page

values:
/wiki/Main_Page
Visit the main page [ctrl-alt-z]
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values: Featured content – the best of Wikipedia

values: Find background information on current events

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/wiki/Special:Random
Load a random article [ctrl-alt-x]
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display: none; font-size: 13px;

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