More specific uses of “camera” in the 17th century included “chamber where a legislative or judicial body meets or deliberates.” This use persists only in the legal phrase “in camera,”
That use also persists in the phrase “bicameral legislature (or, more rarely, unicameral).
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h.s. gudnason:
August 16th, 2011 at 5:28 am
That use also persists in the phrase “bicameral legislature (or, more rarely, unicameral).
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