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A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where the other chamber is the upper house.[1] Although styled as "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise exert significant political influence.
- ^ Tsebelis, George (1997). Bicameralism.