Ukraine is an unusual country in having a large population, yet possessing a unicameral parliamentary structure in its single house, the Verkhovna Rada. Forty percent of the national members of the Venice Commission (the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters) have a bicameral parliament and, of those with a single house parliament, almost all of them have a population of less than ten million. Ukraine is the exception alongside Turkey (population 85 million) and South