1. Art. 1. sec. I.
2. Adams' Defense of the American Constitutions, vol. 3, 502.
3. N. A. Reg. for 1791. Hist. p. 49.
4. Art. 1. sec. 3.
5. Lecture 2, p. 21.
6. Journals of Congress, vol. 3, 416.
7. Art. 1. sec. 4.
8. Letter 12.
9.Federalist, vol. 2. No. 62.
10. Art. 1. sec. 3.
11. Art. 1. sec. 3.
12. Tac. Ann. lib. 11. 22.
13. Art. 1. sec. 2.
14. Art. I. sec. 6.
15. Art. l. sec. 2.
16.Federalist, vol. 2. No. 54.
17. Mitford's Greece, vol. 1. 354, 357.
18. The Roman mode of passing laws, and voting in their comitia, was orderly, and under great checks, during the best periods of the government. When a law was proposed and discussed, and the religious rites duly performed, and no intercession made, the people proceeded to vote, and every citizen was ordered to repair to his century. The method of voting was originally viva voce; but afterwards by ballot by the leges tabellariae, which applied equally to the election of magistrates, to public trials, and to making and repealing laws. The people were made to pass in order over some narrow planks, called pontes into the septa or enclosures, where certain officers delivered to every voter two tablets, one for and one against the proposition, and each person threw into a chest which of them he pleased, and they were pointed off, and the greatest number of points either way determined the sense of the century, and the greatest number of centuries passed for the voice of the whole people, who either passed or rejected the law. See Heineccius' Antiquit Rom. Jur. lib. 1. tit. 2. sec. 3-11. Opera, tom. 4. where the ancient learning on the subject is collected; and see Hooke's Rom. Hist. b. 1. c. 7. sec. 4 note.
19. Montesquieu's Esprit des Loix, tom, 1. 1. 2. c. 2. — Grand. et Decad. des Rmn. ch. 9.
20. 1 Black. Com. 174. Millar on the English Constitution, b. 2. c. 6. Sec. 1.
21. Moral Philosophy, p. 369.
22. Art. 1. sec. 5.
23. Art. 1. sec. 5.
24. Art. 1. sec. 6.
25. Art. 1. sec. 8.
26. Anderson v. Dun, 6 Wheaton, 204.
27. Art. 1. sec. 7.
28. Art. 1. sec. 8.
29. See the standing rules and orders of the house of representatives, printed into 1795 by Francis Childs. Legislation was a science cultivated with so much care and refinement among the ancient Romans, that they had laws to instruct them how to make laws. The Lex Licinia, and Lex Ebutia, the Lex Coecilia, and Lex Didia, provided checks, that the law should not unintentionally contain any particular personal privileges, or weaken the force of former laws, or be crowded with multifarious matter. Gravina, De Ortu et Progressu Juris Civilis, lib. 1. ch. 29.
30. Art. 1. sec. 7.
