Hexacameralism
Hexacameralism is the practice of having six legislative chambers, as opposed to unicameralism, bicameralism, the rare tricameralism, the rarer tetracameralism, and the obscure pentacameralism.
Following amendments to the 1963 Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia became somewhat hexacameral. [1][2] The hexacameral structure was later abandoned in favor of a bicameral structure after the adoption of the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia.
References
- ↑ The changing faces of federalism : institutional reconfiguration in Europe from East to West. Sergio Ortino, Mitja Žagar, Vojtech Mastny. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 2005. p. 115. ISBN 0-7190-6996-3. OCLC 56875231.
The council of nations, which was a to reflect a pluralistic ethnic structure and to assure equality among federal units and ethnic communities in the federal parliament, was still a 'sub-chamber' of the federal chamber in the five-chamber federal assembly. Its competences were very limited
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- ↑ Lapenna, Ivo (1972). "Main features of the Yugoslav constitution 1946-1971". International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 21(2): 209–229.
Ten years later, the Constitution of 1963 completely changed the whole structure of the Federal Assembly and of all the other organs of State authority. It introduced a heavy and complicated system of five or, in some cases, even six "Councils", for which the term "Chamber" seems more appropriate in order to avoid confusion between these bodies and various other councils.
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