House of Representatives of Japan

“The only thing to fear is fear itself.” This was spoken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as F.D.R. Franklin Roosevelt was the president during the Great Depression, and a large part of the executive branch. The executive branch is one of the three branches of government responsible for leading this country. The other two branches of government are the Legislative and Judicial. They all work together to run, regulate, and protect the U.S.A. I will summarize the roles, major parts,…

“The Democrats are under-represented by about 18 seats in the House, relative to their vote share in the 2012 election”, states the Washington Post. How is this possible the one political party can be so underrepresented when we are told that every voice is equally represented in the House of Representatives? In comes the term gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is as old as Democracy is here in the United States. It dates back to our founding fathers. What is gerrymandering and how does it affect…

Smith’s Urgent Declaration Throughout the 1950’s, a Red Scare movement caused mass panic among Americans, led by the Senate accusing innocent citizens of supporting communism, which ruined the careers and lives of many. The Republican minority attacked the Democratic administration during this movement, criticizing the government for its lack of strong leadership. In her “Declaration of Conscience,” Margaret Chase Smith pressures the current administration to improve its leadership through the…

Introduction Richard F. Fenno, Jr. has undoubtedly made some of the biggest contributions to political science that society has ever seen. With that being said, Bernhard and Sulkin have also contributed to the field of political science in some sense with things such as innovation in analytics and equations, quantitative data, along with their knack of coming up with new legislative styles, and identifying the styles of lesser-known legislators. They did have some strengths but overall the more…

representation of citizen’s demands, the Legislative branch of government was formed. The Legislative branch is a “Bicameral Legislature consisting of Senate and House of Representatives.”(p53) While these two chambers serve a different constituency, the members of both House and Senate are elected directly by the people. Both the House and the Senate are designed to form legislation that responds to the demands of political actors outside of government. These demands are inputs, and the…

Under the Articles of Confederation, written in 1777, the United States of America was in dire need of a strong centralized power and a more structured government. 55 delegates rallied to this need and started the Philadelphia Convention, where the motive was to form a better government that would meet the needs of its people. With this motive in mind, the Constitution of the United States was drafted, but there was still a long road till it was signed into law in 1788. In order to make the…

jobs for Ohioans in 2015. By increasing jobs, businesses will expand and be able to provide more services to a wider range of people. Kasich not only created JobsOhio, but he was also the chairman of the National House Budget Committee while serving in the United States House of Representatives. In comparison, Donald Trump would “rather not deal with the economy.” According to Trump, “‘we 're in a bubble . . . And, frankly, if there 's going to be a bubble popping, I hope they pop before I…

with one simple word: gerrymandering. But what exactly is gerrymandering? In a nutshell, it is altering the way your votes are added up to affect how the results look at the end of the day. Gerrymandering uses this to wrongly affect how the House of Representatives looks and is therefore destroying our democracy. Here is how it is done. In most states, the state legislature is the one in control of redistricting. Every 10 years, they get census data and use it to decide how to divide the state.…

When serving in the house, you are up for reelection every two years. The house has 435 members and they need to have more rules than the senate. They are more centralized and formal. They adopt new rules at the start of each session. They start impeachment procedures and they make them more effective with not too much debate. The house initiates revenue bills and impeachment. The house also emphasizes tax and revenue policies. They also pass impeachment…

the house is to be chosen and how it precedes over the people has been made known through Jefferson exerting, “I think a House so chosen, will be very illy qualified to legislate for the Union, for foreign nations, &c., yet this evil does not weigh against the good” (Jefferson). Jefferson depicts the way in which the house is chosen as an evil in the constitution and this opposition is bread because of the fact that it gives preference to the larger states from the smaller state. The House of…