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House of Commons
Type of legislative assembly / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, see House of Commons of the United Kingdom. For the lower house of the Parliament of Canada, see House of Commons of Canada.
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister. Other parliaments have also had a lower house called the "House of Commons".
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