The House of Representatives
Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution states: "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers." The Speaker is elected by roll call vote when each new House first convenes.
They lost 74% of our treaty territory
to make war and give away places which in plain terms is too empoverish the nation
baron de Montesquieu admired a mixed government due to the division of power between the various divisions. He admired governments with the monarch as the head and a body representing the people that also acted to check the powers of the monarch to avoid abuse