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A lower house is one of two chambers in a bicameral legislature, typically representing a broader population base and having more members than the other chamber. It often plays a crucial role in initiating legislation and reflecting the will of the general population in a country's lawmaking process.
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A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where the other chamber is the upper house. Although styled as "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise exert significant political influence.
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