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== History ==
The [[Parliament of England]] developed in the opposite direction, merging the two aristocratic estates into the [[House of Lords]], the archetypal [[upper house]],leaving the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] as the elective [[lower house]]; in time, the English and later British parliaments became the standard model on which the modern bicameral legislature is based.
The [[Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia]] originally had five chambers. After [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] adopted a [[1963 Constitution of Yugoslavia|new constitution in 1963]], its legislature was restructured into four chambers each representing the various sectors of Yugoslav society with an additional chamber representing the general population.<ref>[[wikisource:en:Constitution of Yugoslavia (1963)|1963 Constitution of Yugoslavia]] on [[WikiSource]]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Arhiv Jugoslavije - The Constitution of the SFRY, April 7, 1963 |url=http://www.arhivyu.gov.rs/active/en/home/glavna_navigacija/leksikon_jugoslavije/konstitutivni_akti_jugoslavije/ustav_sfrj_1963.html |website=www.arhivyu.gov.rs}}</ref> The Federal Assembly was the only legislature anywhere with five chambers, and a constitutional amendment added a sixth component described as either a chamber or sub-chamber.<ref>{{cite web |last=Acetto |first=Matej |date= |title=On Law and Politics in the Federal Balance: Lessons from Yugoslavia |url=https://www.pf.uni-lj.si/media/accetto.-.on.law.and.politics.in.the.federal.balance.pdf |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=www.pf.uni-lj.si}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2005 |title=The changing faces of Federalism |url=http://www.inv.si/DocDir/zaposleni/mitja%20zagar/The%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Yugoslav%20federalism%20and%20the%20Viability%20of%20Asymmetrical%20Federalism_m.pdf |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=www.inv.si}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56875231|title=The changing faces of federalism : institutional reconfiguration in Europe from East to West |date=2005 |publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] |others=Sergio Ortino, Mitja Žagar, Vojtech Mastny |isbn=0-7190-6996-3 |location=Manchester, UK |pages=115 |oclc=56875231 |quote=The council of nations, which was a to reflect a pluralistic ethnic structure and to assure equality among federal units and ethnic communities in the federal parliament, was still a 'sub-chamber' of the federal chamber in the five-chamber federal assembly. Its competences were very limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lapenna |first=Ivo |date=1972 |title=Main features of the Yugoslav constitution 1946-1971 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/incolq21&i=228 |journal=International and Comparative Law Quarterly |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=209–229 |doi=10.1093/iclqaj/21.2.209 |quote=Ten years later, the Constitution of 1963 completely changed the whole structure of the Federal Assembly and of all the other organs of State authority. It introduced a heavy and complicated system of five or, in some cases, even six "Councils", for which the term "Chamber" seems more appropriate in order to avoid confusion between these bodies and various other councils.}}</ref> Yugoslavia adopted yet [[1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia|another constitution in 1974]], abolishing the Federal Assembly and replacing it with a bicameral legislature.<ref>[[wikisource:en:Constitution of Yugoslavia (1974)|Constitution of Yugoslavia]] on [[WikiSource]]</ref>
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