An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. The house formally designated as the upper house...

effectively an Upper Chamber and a Lower Chamber, with the knights and burgesses sitting in the latter. This Upper Chamber became known as the House of Lords...

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster...

20833 The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. As of 2023[update], it has a maximum...

house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house. Although formally styled as "below" the upper house,...

consent of both houses. For its somewhat similar function, the Bundesrat is sometimes (controversially) described as an upper house of parliament along...

This is a list of abolished upper houses of bicameral legislatures and parliaments at national and lower levels of government. The reasons for abolition...

more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime...

The reform of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, has been a topic of discussion in UK politics for more than...

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 11 July 2004. The House of Councillors consists of 242 members who serve six-year terms. Approximately...