a. [f. UNI- 1 + CAMERAL a.] Having, consisting of, or characterized by one legislative chamber.
1853. F. Lieber, Civil Liberty & Self-Govt., xxiv. 242. As a feature of Gallican liberty, must be mentioned here the unicameral system, because it seems to be held by all those persons who seem to be the most distinct enunciators of this species of liberty, a necessary requisite, if they allow the principle of representation at all.
1890. Century Mag., Feb., 506/1. Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire abandoned the unicameral system after a short trial of it.
1894. Morley, in Daily News, 28 June, 7/4. There is very little chance of our being … what is called unicameral.
Hence Unicameralist, an advocate of a unicameral system. Also Unicamerist.
1888. Earl of Pembroke, in Univ. Rev., I. 101. The ideal of the unicamerists seems to me to be quite out of the region of practical politics.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 14 Feb., 1/3. Of course, I, as a Democrat, do not care for the two Chambers, I am a unicameralist.
