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.
legislatures, bicameral and unicameral legislatures, bicameral and unicameral. In the United States, legislatures at the federal, state, and local levels may be bicameral (consisting of two houses) or unicameral (one house).