2. Select ALL the correct answers.
Read the sentence from the passage.
That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate jand distinct from the judicative; and, that the
members of the two first may be restrained from oppression by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they
should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and
the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections in which all, or any part of the former members, to
be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.
Which two words from the passage help the reader understand the meaning of station as it is used in the passage?
reduced
body
private
fixed
originally