John Adams recommended a bicameral (two-house) legislature because he believed that...

   

• one house could not handle the volume of legislative business.
• state power should be divided along social lines.
• two houses would keep the chief executive under control.
• the upper house, consisting of substantial property owners, would check the power of popular majorities in the lower house. 

ANSWER: John Adams recommended a bicameral (two-house) legislature because he believed that the upper house, consisting of substantial property owners, would check the power of popular majorities in the lower house.