Ideally, the upper house is gradually stripped of its powers, as it's undemocratic by design.
IIRC it's actually somewhat rare to have a bicameral legislature where both houses have roughly symmetrical powers.
Ideally, the upper house is gradually stripped of its powers, as it's undemocratic by design.
IIRC it's actually somewhat rare to have a bicameral legislature where both houses have roughly symmetrical powers.
"Undemocratic by design" applies to the whole Constitution, since everything in it requires supermajorities to change. A legislature is undemocratic in that it restricts voting to representatives. Due process is another constraint on democracy. This is to say that "undemocratic" is not necessarily a bug, since pure democracy is rule by the whim of the mob.