The benefits of bicameral legislature are :
- It can provide checks and balances.
- It can prevent potential abuses of power .
- It can lead to gridlock that makes the passage of law difficult .
- It protects the interests of minority groups .
The drawbacks of it are :
- Bicameral legislature encourages duplication of functions, since they perform the same function .
- It leads to unnecessary rivalry as to which of the two houses is superior to other .
- Bicameral legislature waste a lot of public fund .
- It causes a serious delay in the act of law making .
