Common Attributes
In comparison with the upper house, lower houses frequently display certain characteristics:
- Greater power, usually based on restrictions against the upper house.
- Directly elected (apportionment is usually based on population).
- More members.
- Elected more frequently, and all at once.
- Has total or original control over budget and monetary laws.
- Able to override the upper house in some ways.
- In a presidential system, given the sole power to impeach the executive (the upper house then tries the impeachment).
- In a parliamentary system, can be dissolved by the executive.
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