By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end.

The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral — the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831.

Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […].

Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters.

Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s.

2004, Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, page 91,
For more than a thousand years, classical Greek has been habitually written in a bicameral, polytonic alphabet (one with caps and lower case and a set of diacritics marking tone and aspiration).

[The Linear B Tablets] were written directly in what I am calling the bicameral period. p.80;
…to have an idea of the nature and range of the bicameral voices heard in the early civilizations. p.88;
…how could [the brain] have been organized so that a bicameral mentality was possible? p.101;
Like the queen in a termite nest or a beehive, the idols of a bicameral world are the carefully tended centers of social control, with auditory hallucinations instead of pheromones. p.144;
…wherever and whenever civilization first began…there was a succession of kingdoms all with similar characteristics that, somewhat prematurely, I shall call bicameral. p.149;
Bicameral gods [of conquering civilizations] are jealous gods. p.156, footnote;
…I suggest that given man, language, and cities organized on a bicameral basis, there are only certain fixed patterns into which history can fit. p.159.
How can we know that…idols ‘spoke’ in the bicameral sense? p.174.

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