Photographer Thomas Jefferson stopped by our offices to explain the concept of bicameralism, first introduced earlier this week in the Constitution. "I wasn't actually there to sign it," he confessed, "but I helped envision it. Bicameralism is basically the idea of having two houses of government. We put it in the Constitution because we wanted to support both the New Jersey and the Virginia Plans, i.e. we wanted both small states and large states to get what they wanted. It's been called the Great Compromise, although my brilliant nickname 'Getting to the ends of our unicameral friends' hasn't quite caught on yet - but no matter. In our government, one house will be based on state population, and one will have the same number of representatives from each state. That's it."
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