Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate, so-called as an assembly of the senior. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of’sober second thought’ to consider legislation passed by a lower house.
About Senate in brief
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate, so-called as an assembly of the senior and therefore considered wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of’sober second thought’ to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected. Most senates have asymmetrical duties and powers compared with their respective lower house meaning they have special duties, for example to fill important political positions or to pass special laws.
In Australia and Canada, only the upper House of the federal parliament is known as the Senate. In Germany, the last Senate of a State parliament, the Senate of Bavaria, was abolished in 1999. However, the term Senat refers to the higher courts of appeal, often occupied with a particular subject-matter, such as the judiciary, and not to a legislative chamber. The terms senate and senator, however, do necessarily refer to the executive branch of a legislature: in the Bundesländer and Germany the senates are not a second form of government.
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