Gerrymandering

As of today, there’s various roles and positions that help stabilize the Texas government. These three specific branches aren’t just extremely important, but have comparable powers just like the federal government pertains. The legislative branch produces the laws. According to whitehouse.gov, “all legislative powers in the government is vested in [the] Congress, meaning that it is the only part of the government that can make new laws and change existing ones…” if the act is needed. Following,…

As the Athenian historian Thucydides believed, specific types of events and political situations repeat themselves over time, and the Roman Empire was subject to this as well. Though differences exist, the United States is a modern representation of the Roman Empire. A key characteristic of an empire is continuous expansion, and is seen in both international powers. Reducing the power of the ordinary citizen is also a common factor in the empire and country. Despite these examples though, it may…

no longer functions. It has paralyzed itself with the help and assistance of state legislatures that can’t resist drawing congressional district lines in ways that enable members of Congress from both parties to pick their voters. It’s called gerrymandering, and it…

recorded, the federal redistricting process begins and it is determined how many seats each state should receive in the House of Representatives. If there are any population shifts in the state, that is where redistricting comes into play as well as gerrymandering. According to Professor Justin Levitt’s website on redistricting, “in most states, the state legislature has primary control over the redistricting process, both for state legislative districts and for congressional districts.”…

The topic of gerrymandering was frequently mentioned by four of the students (Mina, Gabi, Abey, and Alberto). They believed that gerrymandering had negatively affected our process of voting by misrepresenting the citizens voting in a gerrymandered district. “It’s not the voters choosing the representatives, it’s the representatives…

The frequent recent government “shutdowns” exemplify the weaknesses of the American constitution system. If Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, James Madison and Epicurus sat together over lunch to discuss the recent government “shutdown,” they would disapprove of the selfishness and corruption the “shutdowns” are used for. The majority of these men believed the government should look to further the well-being of the nation, yet the “shutdowns” are a clear example that corruption is not allowing the…

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…

In the United States there are certain terms to describe the way the voting system works. As of now in the United States we have a winner take all approach to the voting system, which is about what it sounds like. Within this system known as winner takes all which is not proportional. Commonly also referred to as first past the post voting system there can only be one winner. Based on the idea that each citizen will be able to vote once in each election and the candidate with the most votes will…

There has long been a complex and changing relationship between Congress and the presidency. Many variables contribute to the creation of the dynamic rivalry in government. The lack of bipartisanship and the increase in partisan politics has played a key role. The current circumstances between the Congress and presidency are dysfunctional. History plays an important role in understanding the rivalry between Congress and the presidency. The framers created the enduring rivalry with the…

2015). By doing this, candidates who were eventually on the ballots were not actually representative of the voting population. Gerrymandering is also used to manipulate the racial diversity of the voting population in different districts. This is done to alter the apportionment of state legislatures to benefit one party or another (Justia, 2015). Racial gerrymandering is the practice of deliberately drawing the boundary lines of a district for racial reasons (USlegal.com). This practice…