in the origination of such bills and that it should be considered proper that an altogether different department of the government should be permitted to do so. some of our best political maxims and opinions have been drawn from our parent isle. there are others， however， which can not be introduced in our system without singular incongruity and the production of much mischief， and this i conceive to be one. no matter in which of the houses of parliament a bill may originate nor by whom introduced——a minister or a member of the opposition—— by the fiction of law， or rather of constitutional principle， the sovereign is supposed to have prepared it agreeably to his will and then submitted it to parliament for their advice and consent. now the very reverse is the case here， not only with regard to the principle， but the forms prescribed by the constitution. the principle certainly assigns to the only body constituted by the constitution （the legislative body） the power to make laws， and the forms even direct that the enactment should be ascribed to them. the senate， in relation to revenue bills， have the right to propose amendments， and so has the executive by the power given him to return them to the house of representatives with his objections. it is in his power also to propose amendments in the existing revenue laws， suggested by his observations upon their defective or injurious operation. but the delicate duty of devising schemes of revenue should be left where the constit
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