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Overview Of Bicameral Legislatures’ Potential Impact On The Executive Selection Process, Kyle Kopchak

Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design

Bicameral legislature is a common constitutional design model, with bicameral legislatures making up roughly 41 percent of all legislatures worldwide. As of April 2014, 79 bicameral and 113 unicameral systems were recorded in the database of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In general, “bicameralism is more common in federal, large, and presidential states, while unicameralism is more common in unitary, small, parliamentary ones”. Bicameral systems operate two legislative chambers, both of which play a role in drafting and passing national legislation. However, each house often fulfills a unique role in the legislative process and is usually elected by different methods. Proponents of …

Minority Vetoes In Consociational Legislatures: Ultimately Weaponized?, Devin Haymond

Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design

In societies emerging from or at risk for conflict, dividing power among rival groups—called power-sharing—can be an appropriate arrangement to maintaining peace. But how can groups, who are often emerging from violent conflict, trust sharing a government with rival groups that were just recently shooting at them?

A potential solution is the minority veto, which is allows minority groups to block the government from harming those groups’ vital interests. But what sorts of change blocking mechanisms constitute a minority veto? Who gets the veto power, and when can they be used? Do minority vetoes function as effective incentives for ensuring …

Taxonomy Of Powers And Roles Of Upper Chambers In Bicameral Legislatures, Carolyn Griffith

Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design

Bicameral legislatures exist around the world, with power divisions to create checks and balances on the constitutional order as a whole. In the context of constitutional design, this presents a variety of options of roles and rights given to each chamber at each step in both the legislative process and beyond. Taken as a whole, this taxonomy demonstrates there are nearly an infinite number of possibilities for separating powers between upper and lower chambers in bicameral legislatures. Often, these decisions are guided by the history of the country. For each federal legislature that places powers or votes in one chamber, …

Statutory Interpretation: A Peek Into The Mind And Will Of A Legislature, Reed Dickerson

Indiana Law Journal

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Book Review. The Legislative Struggle By Bertram M. Gross, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Effect Of Statutory Limitation Of Term Of Office Created By Legislature

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Cases: Interpretation and Construction

Some Public Reactions To Procedural Methods, Michael L. Fansler

Indiana Law Journal

An address delivered by Judge Michael L. Fansler of the Indiana Supreme Court at the mid-winter meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, January 25, 1941.

The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 3), Bernard C. Gavit

Indiana Law Journal

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The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 2), Bernard C. Gavit

Indiana Law Journal

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