Us Congress Research Paper

The US Congress is the national legislative body of government that consists of the Senate and the House of Representative. When people think of the word congress they most likely think of this definition, but congress is so much more. The US Congress is the reason we have all the laws that keep us safe. The word congress means coming together and legislature means making law, which put together congress means coming together to make laws, which is exactly what they do. Congress is a locally elected body of government that makes national policy. Which leads to congressional districts; Congressional district is when a state is divided into districts and each district elects one member to represent the national House of Representatives. According to Richard Fenno, “People run for Congress by running against Congress”. This means that people love the people that they elect to be in congress, but they just do not like the job that congress does. People love their congressman due to the fact that they …show more content…
As of 2010, Georgia’s third district has been relocated and shrunk. Until 2010 we were the 3rd largest districts out of the whole state and now we are the 8th largest districts out of the 14 districts. Out of the 14 districts we have in Georgia, 10 of them are republican and 4 are Democrat. This seems to be an example partisan gerrymandering. Partisan gerrymandering is redistricting controlled by the majority party in the state’s legislature, to increase the number of districts that a party can expect to carry. I believe this is partisan gerrymandering due to the fact that the third district used to be one of the largest districts, but mostly everyone in the district would vote republican. Which makes me believe they moved the third district to get more republican votes where the third district used to