What Is My Response To Government By David Magleby

My response is to Government by The People, 25th edition By David B. Magleby, Pearson 2015, with chapter 10, The Congress "The people’s branch". The chapter begins with why the legislative branch was formed as well as the responsibilities of the legislative branch. Magleby explains that the framers created the legislative branch to make sure that voters had a strong say in making the laws. The author then goes into explained one of the main jobs of the branch which is being in control of the federal budgets each year and being able to cover the revenue of the country. For instance “ as the federal budgets grew beyond its revenues during the 2000s because of tax cuts and the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , the debt grew dramatically’’ (Magleby) This tapped into one of Congress's job which is they are allowed to …show more content…
“the framer expected that Congress, not the president or the judiciary, would be the most important brand of government” (Magleby). This was very shocking to me because the way that the American society creates a great deal about the presidential election, you would assume that they were meant to be the most important part of the government. However, throughout my earlier years of learning about the government, I was always told that the president was just a figurehead. The framers were so concerned that the legislative branch would take more control of government compared to the two other counterparts of government. The rest of the chapter breaks down the sections of Congress and the checks and balances between the executive and judicial branch. Throughout reading this section of the book, I came to fully understand the importance of the legislative branch. I gain more knowledge of the house and senate. I never really fully understood the difference between the two and the reasoning between them and what was the purpose of