Lower house

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  • Lower House
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  • The body of a bicameral legislature composed of representatives elected by the general populace and organized into electorates or districts, each comprising an equal number of citizens.
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Abstract from DBPedia
    A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise exert significant political influence. The lower house, typically, is the larger of the two chambers, meaning its members are more numerous.

    下院(かいん、英: lower house)は、両院制の議会における一方の議院の呼称である。日本では衆議院、アメリカ合衆国では代議院、イギリスでは庶民院、フランスでは国民議会、ドイツでは連邦議会がこれにあたる。対称となる議院は上院(じょういん、英: upper house)と呼ばれる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lower_house)