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In a bicameral parliament of a Westminster System , the House of Commons has historically been the name of
the elected lower house. The Commons generally holds much more power than the
upper house (the senate or House of Lords). The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons
usually becomes the prime minister.
Most Westminster-system nations have since changed the name of their lower house to "the House of Representatives." There are only two existing
Houses of Commons. These are the:
The House of Commons was also the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, before its abolition under the 1801 Act of Union, and the short-lived Parliament of Southern Ireland in 1920, which was
subsequently superseded by the Dáil of the Irish Free State. Similarly, the House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland before its
abolition in 1972.
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