[Kalam]

Ez wrote:The word congress itself requires two entities “in Congress.”
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Response: Lets not forget there are legislatures with only one chamber, and it is called a unicameral. By definition:
Unicameral. Use the adjective unicameral to describe a government with only one legislative house or chamber. The Parliament of Finland, for example, is a unicameral. ... The word unicameral has two Latin roots, uni, which means “one,” and camera, “chamber.”

The state of Nebraska is also has a unicameral legislature. The best elements of having only one chamber is that it reduces costs and eliminates backroom deals done when the two branches go hide in committee and get into bargaining. All the deals are done publicly and in a straightforward manner.

So, I’m not so sure a congress requires two entities.
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Bigg Red wrote: The word “congress” is not the same word as “legislature”.

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Response: No, but I believe the individuals serving in Nebraska’s unicameral are all called senators. Both unicameral and bicameral’s have “chambers” that are called “legislatures.” There isn’t a congressman or woman to be seen in Nebraska’s unicameral.

Technically, the term “chamber” or “legislature” is being replaced when people refer to the congress as being both the house and the senate. Everyone has accepted this usage but it does in fact ignore Nebraska’s unicameral to do so.

[Melian]

Some Presidents get a dog...

[ichabod1]

The definition specified ‘sexual’ congress, but I think any case of 2 or more people coming together can be described as a congress - it must come from the verb ‘to congregate’ don’t you think?