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 is the lawmaking body of a system of government where authority is shared between two separate houses, or chambers, that work together to make laws. In the United States, the two chambers are called the House of Representatives and the Senate; we refer to them collectively as Congress.