House of Commons

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House of Commons is one of the two houses of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. Canada's House of Commons is modeled after that of the United Kingdom. So are the lower houses of the national legislatures of some other former British colonies, including Australia's House of Representatives and India's Lok Sabha (House of the People).

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