Above: Members seated in the Chamber; Left: The Cabinet building in Hamilton.


1. The first is the division of the English Parliament into the Lords and the Commons;


2. The second is the constitution of Venice in the later middle Ages, under which rule was by the Doge, Senate, and Consiglio Maggiore. This


bicameral model was later copied by Florence and other city states;


3. The third is the medieval notion that society consisted of well- defined groups or classes who should be represented separately; ie. The clergy (First


Estate), the nobility (Second Estate) the commoners (Third Estate).


It is the English route to bicameralism which has proved to be the model and inspiration for almost all the bicameral


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