The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 6, the decree said.

CNN: Egypt opposition leader calls for election boycott

The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 2 instead of July 6, the agency said.

CNN: Egypt opposition leader calls for election boycott

Despite such misgivings, every state eventually accepted the bicameral system.

ECONOMIST: State legislatures

But unicameralists are hard-pressed to cite specific failures of the bicameral, conference committee system.

ECONOMIST: State legislatures

He points out that only works when one party (or coalition) is in charge, whereas "in a system built around an administration and a bicameral Congress, everybody is part of the government - and the government only functions if there exists a certain baseline spirit of co-operation between the mutually indispensable parts".

BBC: Shame, embarrassment and Congress

MPs of both parties for a part-elected upper house, has said in a thoughtful pamphlet that careful design could prevent Britain from moving all the way from its existing near-unicameral system right over to the American extreme of bicameral gridlock.

ECONOMIST: And here are your chosen (by us) representatives