the fame time, and out of the fame fubjedls, the choice falls of courfe on men of the fame defcription. The purpofe [ 225 J of eftabliPi]ing different houfes of legillation is to introduce the influence of dif- ferent interefts or different principles. Thus in Great-Britain it is faid their con- ftitution relies on the houfe of commons for honeffy, and the lords for
which would be a rational reliance if ho- nefty were to be bought with money, and if wifdom were hereditary. In fome of the American ftates the delegates and fenators are fo chofen, as that the firft re- prefent the perfons, and the fecond thfc property of the flate. But with us, wealth and wifdom have equal chance for admiflion into both houfes. We do not therefore derive from the feparation of our legiflature into two houfes, thofe bene- fits which a proper complication of prin- ciples is capable of producing, and thofe which alone can compenfate the evils which may be produced by their difTen- tions.
- All the powers of government, le- giflative, executive, and judiciary, refult to the legiflative body.