Compare And Contrast Unicameralism Vs Bicameralism

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For a given federal state, the bicameral United State has the House of Representative and the Senate. These two houses are made to equal check and balance the legislature procedures. Comparing to China’s unicameral system—the National People’s Congress has the power in making law and also dominate the executive system. Although the unicameralism is more stable and efficient than bicameralism in political reform. In general, I think bicameralism is better at balance the behavior of the executive and judicial branches because bicameral chambers can balance and check the government’s action, give separate voice to the majority, and reduce the risk of abuse the power. The two chambers in the U.S. have the same representation in terms of making major decisions, so bicameralism makes sure the law is processing carefully and the judicial powers are acting appropriately. Hammond and Miller argued that the legislative procedure under unicameralism is less stable and predictable compared to the bicameralism (1987), especially when discussing the major cases such as entitle a new bill or modify an existing law. It is because that …show more content…

In general, the Democratic Parties ask higher taxes on the rich, assign subsidy policy, and push health insurance reform, exemplified while Democrats Obama is taking in power. While on the contrary, once the republicans in power, they would cut the taxes on the rich, supported the consortium’s positions and so on. The changing in partisanship has significant impacts on political parties and the national economy. Even Bayh was once blamed that there was too much partisanship while the Congress was not making progress and not operating as it should, and he also blamed that the narrow ideology between chambers would restraint the growth of the economy and stabilization of the society (Kaper,

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