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| Chamber of Deputies is a term frequently used in bicameral systems to refer to the lower, "popular" house of a legislature. It comes from the European parliamentary tradition.
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| ==Chambers of Deputies Across Micronationry==
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| ===[[Federal Republic of Cyberia]]===
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| The FRC restored the Chamber of Deputies with the adoption of its [[Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cyberia]] in 2006. It currently consists of eight members, one from each of the historic provinces.
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| ===[[Cyberia]], Virtual Commonwealth of===
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| The Virtual Commonwealth of [[Cyberia]] maintained a Chamber of Deputies from [[1997]] to [[2000]]. It coexisted with a [[Senate]] consisting of two members elected from each of eight provinces. Deputies were elected from each province under an at-large, plurality system. Seats were apportioned to each province in proportion to population. In 2000, Cyberians abolished the bicameral system and established a single [[National Assembly]] elected under [[proportional representation]] by the [[single transferable vote]]. An [http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/cyberchamber archive of proceedings] from the Chamber of Deputies remains available, though vandalism has resulted in the deletion of some messages.
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| The Chamber more or less lives on in the National Assembly, except that several [[winner-take-all]] districts have been replaced with nationwide [[PR]]. The Senate was abolished mainly because Chamber seats were highly contested, while individual residents of a province frequently elected themselves Senator. Opportunists would switch residencies frequently in hopes of winning a Senate seat. For champions of competitive elections, this became even more problematic when the Senate was temporarily merged into the Chamber.
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