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Gabu
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« on: June 26, 2005, 10:17:30 PM »

I'm having trouble figuring out what making our legislature structure bicameral would do.  For something to pass right now, it needs 6 votes: 6 votes in the Senate.  For something to pass with a bicameral legislature, it would still need 6 votes: 3 votes in the House and 3 votes in the Senate.

This would help us... how?

I suppose it would make constitutional amendments harder to pass, as they would need 8 votes instead of the current 7, but beyond that, this would not exactly change a whole lot.
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Gabu
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2005, 04:12:59 PM »

You are partially correct: In a 5-5 split bicameral legislature, a piece of leglislation could receive 7 votes (5 in one House and 2 in the other), yet still not pass.

Yes, I suppose that's true.

I still don't really see the point of having a bicameral legislature other than for the sake of having a bicameral legislature, though.
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