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In today’s world, our government system is seen as a failure. We have too many problems facing our nation such as immigration reform, healthcare, environmental rights, religious rights, terrorism and so much more. These issues have been problems for a long time. Our government is taking too long to resolve this issue. They take too long because our nation is split into half, figuratively. We live in a nation, where half of the country are considering blue states or red states. In our country, we have two political parties that have become polarizing from each other. We have Congressman that care for their state interests than our country as a whole. In our U.S. Constitution, there are no set of rules where it tells how to deal with political …show more content…
I don’t believe we should set a mandatory retirement age for all federal judges because it would be unfair to set a retirement limit. Plus, it can lead to unfair representation from parties since the judges would likely retire when their party is in office. The states justices vs the supreme justices are different since the Supreme Court is part of the judicial branch where it checks and balances the other two branches. Also, the Supreme Court decides if a law is considered constitutional or not. Sabato cannot compare these two systems at the same standard level. In the U.S. Constitution, it says that is until die or retired. The state court has retirement age because that how the state government wanted it to be. Remember anything that was not included in the constitution was stated decision. Both the state justices and supreme justices may have a lot of similar but they are totally different. The Supreme Court justices were selected based on the level. Also, I disagree that we should have twelve Supreme Court Justice because it can lead to not having a majority vote, it can result of the judges being split. This can leave to unresolved cases, therefore, procrastinating other cases. I agree would expand the Supreme Court but to eleven justices since there is a lot of work to do. It should always be an odd number because an even number can lead to unresolved …show more content…
This proposal enhances electoral competition and lessens the influence of gerrymandering. Our government is too divided, nothing can be done to solve the issues facing our nation. Most of the Congressmen forget that they 're representing all the people of their State, not just the people who voted for them. The Constitution itself would call for universal nonpartisan redistricting, therefore, preventing the control by any party. I agree that we should expand the size of the House than the Senate because these representatives are closer to the people of their state since it is divided into districts. If we expand the House, we can have more diverse representation. I know we would pay higher taxes but I am willing to pay higher taxes for more representation in the House. The House is based on population but I will not expand to 1,000 members maybe expand at least 750 members. Because of this, the House members can be closer to their

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