CHAPTER V: Necessity Of Examining The Condition Of The States--Part III.
Legislative Power Of The State Division of the Legislative Body into two Houses--Senate--House of Representatives--Different functions of these two Bodies.
The legislative power of the State is vested in two assemblies, the first of which generally bears the name of the Senate.

The Senate is commonly a legislative body; but it sometimes becomes an executive and judicial one.

It takes a part in the government in several ways, according to the constitution of the different States; *m but it is in the nomination of public functionaries that it most commonly assumes an executive power.

It partakes of judicial power in the trial of certain political offences, and sometimes also in the decision of certain civil cases.

*n The number of its members is always small.