Member of Congress

violent tactics to overcome despotic power In the light of oppression and legitimized fighting, Mandela’s fight against South African Apartheid is a benchmark case for justified violence. During Mandela’s beginning years with the African National Congress, non-violence was endorsed by Mandela between 1940 and 1950. However, in…

choose a standing Committee off the US Senate website, Veteran’s Affair, whose chairman is Johnny Isakson, Republican from Georgia, alongside Ranking member Richard Blumenthal, Democrat from Connecticut. Further, there are fifteen members on this committee, unfortunately this committee does not have subcommittees attached to it, but I do recognize one member of the committee, Dean Heller, a republican from Nevada. Further, this committee has been working vigorously to pass some legislations such…

the fact that they do not have authorizations from Congress. Based on those…

government corruption. In an attempt to address this concern, the possibility of enforcing term limits on congress has come into debate. Ultimately, the long-term desire is to restore confidence in and the productiveness of the legislative branch of government. If congress enforced term limits it would not purge corruptness from government, rather it would negatively…

branch is better known as the United States Congress, and is made up of the Senate and House of Representatives. The House of Representatives is composed of around 435 members,…

Throughout of history we have had many leaders, laws, disagreements, and war. The British are an example of whom the Americans have had disagreements with and have been at war against. From going to war the American leaders have learned to realize what they believe is best for the colonies. From these previous events Thomas Jefferson with the help of other leaders they created the Declaration of Independence. The rights of Englishmen included: Magna Carta, evolution of Parliament, common law…

Congress is separated into the two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, after each election the party with the most representatives is considered the majority party. The other party is then considered the minority party, either way they both have their leader, and their whip, although the majority also gets the Speaker of the House. Usually the same party is the majority in both houses like right now, in both Houses, Republicans are the majority party, and the Democrats are the…

“Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay debt for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States, but all duties imports and excises uniform throughout the United States.” Congress doesn’t have the power to control taxes. Congress also doesn’t have the power to control commerce laws. The year is 1781 is it okay for Congress to have any power? If you look back in history at the year 1781 the thirteen colonies created the…

limited version of the negative lived on in the working draft of the Constitution, which granted Congress the power “to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the national Legislature the articles of union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union.” This clause came under attack on June 20, when John Lansing (NY) questioned whether “the members of the general Legislature be competent Judges,” and asserted that if the federal government…

Government The legislative branch has many checks over the executive branch and the judicial branch. It has a few checks over the executive branch. First, it may override presidential vetoes with a two-thirds vote, which means that each two houses in Congress have to approve the bill. Some cases majority votes do not occur, which is called a bipartisanship. Bipartisanship is when you comprise and that can also help gaining a majority vote causing it to override the veto. If neither one of those…