This was a new idea, and it worked so badly in practice that in the end the province went to the opposite extreme and had no council or upper house of the Legislature at all.
The most noticeable feature of it was the absence of any provision for the large elective council or upper house of legislation, which had been very unpopular.
Lower House, so called to distinguish it from the other dormitory, Upper House, which stood a hundred yards higher on the hill, looked very uninviting.
On the scoreboard the legend ran: Upper House 11--Lower House 11.
In every State there is an Assembly, consisting of two houses of elected representatives--the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives so called.
She has a governor, and anupper house and a lower house of legislature; and she is somewhat fantastic in the use of these constitutional powers, for she calls on them to sit now in one town and now in another.
It is not an "upper house," nor even, in the ordinary sense, a deliberative chamber at all.
Before the measure came into the upper house, it was announced by Lord Wharncliffe that ministers would be passive respecting it, each individual member taking what part they deemed prudent.
A bill for providing for the contingency of another demise of the crown was brought into the upper house by the lord chancellor on the 3rd of July.
Occasionally at Upper House Court, politics were introduced, and Arbuthnot, a staunch Liberal in a shire of Tories, was sometimes rallied upon his opinions by the Conservative Burton and Payne.
The people in town-meeting elected their representatives to a general assembly, as of old, and this assembly chose a council of twenty-eight members to sit as an upper house.
Sidenote: The governor's council was a kind of upper house.
The governor and council were appointed by the lord proprietary, and as the council confined itself to advising the governor and did not take part in legislation, there was no upper house.
But in nearly all the colonies this council took part in the work of legislation, and thus sat as an upper house, with more or less power of reviewing and amending the acts of the assembly.
The salient feature of Danish politics during subsequent years was the struggle between the two Tings, the Folketing or Lower House, and the Landsting, or Upper House of the Rigsdag.
The Landsthing, or upper house, however, is evidently intended to form the conservative element in the constitutional machinery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upper house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
