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Technically, Westminster is a bicameral legislature: that is, one comprising two separate chambers. Although the House of Lords may be quite unusual, there is nothing unusual about bicameralism — there are currently 75 bicameral legislatures around the world. Bicameralism is common in Commonwealth countries, whose constitutions were influenced by that of Britain. It is also common in Europe, and generally in bigger and more populous countries (see Table 1).
The basic purpose of second chambers is to bring a different perspective to politics from that in the first chamber. Bicameralism:
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