Illinois House of Representatives

Introduction “More delicate than the historians’ are the map-makers’ colors (Bishop 1).” Gerrymandering is when a district’s boundaries are redrawn to benefit particular political parties’ agendas (Ingraham 1). Gerrymandering promotes the statistical concept of Simpson’s paradox. Simpson’s paradox describes the phenomenon of having a higher percentage of votes; however not having more votes numerically (Simpson’s 1). Gerrymandering is similar because it also gives the possibility of winning the…

two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each house, however, clashes with one another, making for a broken Congress. In Hamilton and Madison’s On Congress (1788), in order to be in the House of Representatives, one “must be of the age of twenty-five years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must, at the time of his election, be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent” (page 180). If these guidelines are met and one is elected as a representative,…

gives the House of Representatives the right to chose their own speaker and “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment”. Representatives are the originators of all bills that are required to raise money for the United States but they must pass the Senate to be approved. Article 1, Section 3 gives the rights to the Senate to elect other officers “and also a President pro temp in the Absence of the Vice President” but also the sole power to try all Impeachments. The Senate along with the House…

Summary: On Saturday, The Obama administration called for a cap on assessment so that children would not spend more than two percent of classroom instruction taking tests. It called on Congress to “reduce over-testing” as it reauthorizes the legislation controlling the nation’s public secondary and elementary schools. In a recent study taken by the Council of the Great City Schools found students who attend big city school will on average take 112 standardized tests from pre kindergarten and…

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…

In 1787, 55 men meet together to make a document to fix the government of the United States. All of the men were white and most were wealthy. The men gathered together to write a document that better explained the rules, who has power and what amount of power they have. The previous articles that had been written had left many details out so the men had to frame the declaration of independence so everyone knew the rules clearly. Federalism helped to protect against tyranny by appointing certain…

The Texas Legislature is the most significant representative institution within the whole state. It is also the most powerful out of the three branches of government. The Texas Legislature consists of a bicameral body that is organized of one hundred and fifty House of Representatives members and of thirty-one Senate members. The House of Representatives has a chief presiding officer that is known as the Speaker of the house. Speaker of the house is one of the individuals that has a powerful…

government is the role of a leader. The Speaker of the House is the leader of the majority party. While serving, this person is not supposed to be bias during floor debates. This leader can serve up to 6 years in power. The roles of this leader are as follows: he/she speaks only for the majority party during…

3rd, 2014. The concept of a representative government was meant to be as representational as possible. The idea of a representative government is to filter the opinion of the masses by electing a small elite to run the country. This idea of government is actually contradictory because a representative government never represents everyone in the populace. In a representative government, representatives can only represent the majority that elected them. The representatives do not care about the…

any federal officer from office on grounds of “Treason, Bribery, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” (US Const. art. II, sec. 4). This power is further detailed in Article I Sections 2 and 3. It gives sole power of impeachment to the House of Representatives and details that the Senate has the power to try all impeachments. The power of impeachment is a fantastic example of the philosophy that no man is above the law. The power of impeachment was written into the Constitution to insure the…