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.
Bicameral Structure of Congress. 1  Congress has two chambers: Senate and House of Representatives. 2  Senate is smaller; each state has two senators. 3  House is larger; each state has a number of representatives proportional to its population. 4  Founding Fathers chose bicameralism for historical, theoretical, and practical reasons.