Assertion: senate | /r/HasProperty | elected
Facets:
value: directly
type: MANNER
value: fully
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The Senate was to be fully elected, however, the elections would be indirect, as the House of Representatives would elect the senators, for six-year terms.
text: The constitutional commission, under the chairmanship of Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, intended for the Senate to be directly elected as well, but the predominantly conservative House of Representatives blocked this, fearing that the two chambers would be too similar.