It was not their object to create in the one a bulwark to power, whilst the other represented the interests and passions of the people.

The only advantages which result from the present constitution of the United States are the division of the legislative power and the consequent check upon political assemblies; with the creation of a tribunal of appeal for the revision of the laws.
Time and experience, however, have convinced the Americans that if these are its only advantages, the division of the legislative power is still a principle of the greatest necessity.

Pennsylvania was the only one of the United States which at first attempted to establish a single House of Assembly, and Franklin himself was so far carried away by the necessary consequences of the principle of the sovereignty of the people as to have concurred in the measure; but the Pennsylvanians were soon obliged to change the law, and to create two Houses.

Thus the principle of the division of the legislative power was finally established, and its necessity may henceforward be regarded as a demonstrated truth.

This theory, which was nearly unknown to the republics of antiquity--which was introduced into the world almost by accident, like so many other great truths--and misunderstood by several modern nations, is at length become an axiom in the political science of the present age.
[See Benjamin Franklin] The Executive Power Of The State Office of Governor in an American State--The place he occupies in relation to the Legislature--His rights and his duties--His dependence on the people.
The executive power of the State may with truth be said to be represented by the Governor, although he enjoys but a portion of its rights.