Legislatures

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…

Amy Melissa McKay’s article, “The Power of Negative Lobbying,” discusses the inherent advantages negative lobbyists have in striking down new movements compared to proponents of promoting new legislation. This distinction emanates despite the typically large funding gap between the two groups. McKay calculates a ratio of about four lobbyists proposing new legislation being needed to counteract just one negative lobbyist. Some political scientists have asserted that the amount of conflict rising…

The Constitution is a living document that holds the basic set-up for the United States’ government and the laws by which citizens should abide. One of the main elements of the Constitution are its focus on the powers to limit the three branches’ powers. Specifically, the legislative branch’s limits are expanded upon greater than the judicial or executive branch. Another element that has grown from the Constitution is the expansion of presidential power due to special circumstances. The other…

In comparison to the powers of both the legislative branch of government to the executive branch of government, one must first take a look and understand why these two main branches of government were made in the first place. What powers make up each individual form of government, why and how are they able to function separately and also, their purpose is for the people of the nation. For the first branch of government, the legislative branch, this branch was first established in Article 1 of…

I argue that the creation of political parties in the United States Congress both addresses and enhances the collective action issues known as the prisoner’s dilemma, agency loss, and the tragedy of the commons, due to their constant clashes of ideological ambitions. The formation of Congress was most likely the first act of collective action before the official constitution was drafted. Two opposing sides, one the heavily populated states argued for a legislative body based on population. And…

government the majority chooses, its first act is to set up a legislative government in power which is supreme and it can’t be changed unless the whole government is dissolved. The legislative power while supreme within the common wealth cannot be arbitrary, it cannot deprive someone of life, liberty, or a state. If the legislative power did deprive people of life, liberty, or the state no individual would have voluntarily left the natural condition. What has been given to government is the law…

When I were woken up by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake from Pawnee, Oklahoma on last Saturday morning, I just thought I was in a dream. Is Texas near a seismic zone? Again, I heard my cousin, a petroleum engineer, talk about the hydraulic fracturing which causes the frequent earthquakes recently. hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is widely used by the oil and gas companies in Texas and Oklahoma to produce oil and natural gas. Although hydraulic fracturing technology successfully reduce…

Many years ago our founding fathers made a government without tyranny, they were smart to do this because they didn't want to have all the power in the hands of one person or group. Delegates (55) gathered in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention to frame a government without too much power in the hands of one person or a group. The Constitution was signed September 17, 1787. How did these framers protect us from tyranny ? They wanted to create a government without tyranny and they did…

Australia Australia has three different types of government. They use a Parliamentary system, Federal Monarchy, and a Constitutional Monarchy. There is a monarchy, a prime minister, and a parliament. Australia’s queen is Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II is the queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The prime minister is Malcolm Turnbull. Parliament is elected every three years in an election much like that of the United States. There are two sections in parliament, the House…

There are several steps in the lawmaking process. The first step in the process is when the bill is drafted. When people feel that a law is needed, they will try to get representatives of that state to submit it to the national government. This leads to the next step: the law is introduced to the House of Representatives or Senate. From here the bill will be sent to a committee. In this committee they will choose to kill it, which is to say no, or approve it. If approved, the bill will go to the…