What are the different types of legislature? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

In all democratic countries of the world, legislature exists to make laws. There can be two types of legislature Bi-Cameral and Uni-Cameral. When the legislature consists of two chambers (Houses), it is known as Bi-Cameral Legislature. In almost all the big countries like USA., India, Switzerland, Canada, UK. etc. there is a bicameral system of legislature. The British Parliament consists of House of Lords and House of Commons whereas Indian Parliament consists of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. But there are some countries like Pakistan, Finland, China, Portugal, Czechoslovakia etc., where there is a single House in the Legislature, it is known as Uni-Cameral legislature.

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