Tricameralism more common?

The only way I can imagine this working is some weird class thing, so in Britain you would have a three chambered Parliament, one elected by the workers, the second elected by the middle classes and then the unelected house of lords for the aristocracy or maybe in a France without the 1789 revolution where the Estates-General evolves into some tricameral elected parliament.

No idea how either of those things would happen, but if tricameralism took off in Europe I think it would be class based
 
Maybe the third chamber steps in when the other two can't agree, something like that?

One chamber discusses the laws, the second votes on the laws, the third judges on the constitutionality of the laws (and elects the two other chambers).

didn't Simon Bolivar want tricameralism?

I would like to have a look on the constitution enacted by good old Simon. Any sources? In Spanish or even English?
 
The French republic (until 1807) and the republic of Italy were both tricameralist under Napoleon.
hmm IIRC there were four during the Consulate: the Conseil d'Etat, which would elaborate laws, the Tribunat, which discussed them, the Corps Législatif which voted them, and the Senate which could modify the constitution.
 

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didn't Simon Bolivar want tricameralism?
It's debatable whether he's constitution was truly tricameral.
There was a house of Tribunes which I guess was supposed to be a popularly lower house which had exclusive powers over finance, foreign affairs and war.
Then there was a Senate which was supposed to be like the house of lords. It was to be heredetairy and the idea was that there would be a special class of citizens who would be trained from birth to eventualy take their place as senators, they would receive special training and would be taught to be apolitical, they would mostly act as an upper house to the tribunes and to appoint officials.
Then there were the Censors, but they were less a third house than a body which was meant to prosecute and oversee the executive. Basically an independent prosecuter or public protector.
So the censors weren't really a third house and were more like a 4th body which was outside the legisliture, judiciary and the executive.

The only other example I can think of was South Africa. Three houses were created for Whites, Coloureds and Indians. Each house dealt with its "own affairs" like education and welfare, whereas "general affairs" like defense and foreign affairs required the approval of all 3 houses. But the problem was that the system was basically still totally white dominated, if the 3 houses disagreed on legislation then the President could create a "presidents council" to resolve the dispute, the council however was heavily tilted in favour of the governement, since of the 60 members 20 were appointed by the whites parlimement and only 10 from the Coloureds and 5 for Indians, the rest was apointed by the President, which basically gave the governement a complete majority.
 
hmm IIRC there were four during the Consulate: the Conseil d'Etat, which would elaborate laws, the Tribunat, which discussed them, the Corps Législatif which voted them, and the Senate which could modify the constitution.

Okay, but one could say that either the senate is no real chamber of legislation, or that the Conseil d'Etat was part of the executive. You stay tricameral.

And the Italian republic had, since 1802, a legislative council (Conseil d'Etat), a legislative body (Corps législatif) and a State consulta.
 
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