There should be a representative assembly, as exact portrait in miniature of the people at large...but it must NOT have the whole legislative power, for the reason that like an individual with unchecked power, it could be subject to fits of humor, transports of passion, partialities of prejudice. A single assembly could grow avaricious, EXEMPT ITSELF FROM THE BURDENS, BECOME AMBITIONS AND AFTER SOME TIME VOTE ITSELF PERPETUAL!!!--- John Adams, March 1776...