Abstract
Discussion of the topic of bicameralism goes back very far and demonstrates precisely the wrong method of approaching the subject. The classic Allgemeine Staatslehre as well as modern comparatists and political scientists try to solve the question from a dogmatic point of view. They forget that one of the most influential defenders of bicameralism, James Madison, considered it . . superfluous to try by the standard of theory a part of the constitution [the Senate] which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory but of a spirit of . . . concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.2 Whatever the solution proposed-the need for a Second Chamber as evident truth or the advantage of unicameralism in a country scarcely gifted with skilled politicians-it will always be an abstract solution; but, once more, only the eternal tree of life is goldish green.
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