A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who instead of aiming a single stone at an object takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. Samuel Johnson. Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
A unicameral legislature consists of only one chamber, or legislative house. When it began, the U.S. had a unicameral legislature, but then soon changed to a bicameral legislature, a two-house Congress made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
A bicameral legislature divides the legislators into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group, and from some legislatures that have three or more separate assemblies, chambers, or houses. As of 2015, fewer than half the world's national legislatures are bicameral. Often, the members of the two chambers are elected or selected by different methods, which vary from country to country.