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Bicameral legislature
A bicameral legislature is a lawmaking body divided into two separate chambers or houses. The Meiji Constitution of 1889 created such a legislature, the Imperial Diet, in the Empire of Japan, with an elected lower house and an appointed upper house. Supreme authority, however, remained with the emperor, who stood above institutional accountability.
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