House of Representatives

The Legislative Branch The Legislative branch is a bicameral; it has 2 lawmaking houses and then the local level of Virginia government. The amalgam of the two lawmaking bodies of national government composes Congress. The Federal United States Government is situated within the capital building of the United States; Washington DC. This national government has powers that are itemized and particularly written from the U.S Constitution. From the months of January to August, Congress with have a…

Federal Court System. Finally, the legislative branch consists of the Senate and the House of representatives, which are also elected every four years. Puerto Rico participates in the Republican and Democratic Party primaries but revoked the right to vote for the decisive elections for president and vice president. Also, this commonwealth does not have a representative in the United States House of Representatives, but has a non-voting Resident Commissioner. The residents vote for this position…

means that we do notchoose our president directly. But why? It is a great example of federalism. Federalism is a political concept describing the practice whereby a group of members are bound together by agreement or covenant with a governing representative head. It refers to a system of government in which…

government are not directly chosen by the popular vote. To begin with, people do not directly vote for the President, but the voting system was created to pick electoral college representatives to vote for the presidency. In other words, people do not get to pick the President of their country by their will, but the selected representatives will do the picking for them. Although people choose the electoral college members from the political taste that they have, it would not necessarily match…

vast unoccupied region, emigrants… and free laborers… and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves. The Appeal of the Independent Democrats was signed by the senators and most of the House Representatives from Ohio, one of them being Representative Joshua Giddings, who also co-authored it along with Salmon P. Chase, then the senator. This is just one of many supports for the fact that Joshua Reed Giddings was strongly, one could even argue violently, opposed…

like Massachusetts. Why should they have the same amount of power in the house of representatives as everyone else when they are only a fraction of some states? In the Bill of Rights they will make sure the smaller states do not have equal power. “ In which the smallest state has equal weight with the largest … That it is not necessary for the public good, (Dewitt).” I would want more people in the House of Representatives and have more say on political things going on in our country because we…

responsibilities of proper conduct for our government officials and representatives. The United States House Committee on Ethics was created in 1967 to “enforce standards of conduct for members, officers, and employees; to investigate alleged violations of any law, rule or regulation; and to make recommendations to the House for further action” (Committe History). Former sheriff of Mahoning County Ohio, James Traficant was elected to the House in 1985. During his nine terms of srvice,…

The people can directly vote their representative into office. Their representative can be of any background because the only limitation for Congress is to be at certain and have United States citizenship. Congress fit into Greenberg and Page interpretation of democracy because it is the voice of the people among…

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…

Following the Iraq War, public dissatisfaction with the Bush administration led to more than two dozen Democrats taking control of seats in the House of Representatives in 2006. This victory elevated Representative Nancy Pelosi, a liberal, to House Speaker. In the Senate, Harry Reid, became majority leader, as the Democrats were able to win a slim majority with 49 seats, plus two independents who joined the caucus. The combination of these victories…