United States House of Representatives

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 the political system in the United States? The…

Redistricting has been a problem for many individuals over the last hundred years. In many states during the 1960s, the legislation in the States redistricted for the first time in long time which they needed to for the reason that the population shifted from rural to urban. There are numerus problems with how the legislation redistricts for the congressional districts. First being, the party in control with the state legislation does what is referred to as Gerrymandering, in which they draw new…

Brooklyn, NYC on November 20th, 1924 to immigrant parents Charles St. Hill and Ruby Seale St. Hill,. In her earl childhood her parent sent her to Barbados to her grandmother where she earn most of her elementary education. Once returning to the Unites States Chisholm graduated from Girls High School and Brooklyn College and later earned a master's…

Bernie Sanders is a United States Senator from Vermont, a former member of the US House of Representatives from Vermont, and former Mayor of Burlington. He focuses on economic issues such as income and wealth inequality,raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare, reducing the burden of student debt, making public colleges and universities tuition-free, and expanding Social Security. "I am prepared to run for President of the United States." –Bernie Sanders Bernie throughout the course of…

27th September 2017 RUNNING FOR SENATE REPRESENTING DEMOCRATIC PARTY Texas is the second largest state in the United States of America. Controlling the second largest state of US is a real big deal. To run this state and its components the Texas government has been divided into three main branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial branch of government. “The legislative branch consists of house and the senate who are chiefly responsible for making laws, regulate commerce, control taxes,…

They may face the misfortune of being in a state where their party is not favored - perhaps they won the seat to begin with because their opponent was simply unacceptable, even though the state identifies with the ideology of their opponent’s party. In these kinds of situations, the candidate’s charasma and good will may go a long way in securing the candidate’s election. Perhaps, the issue in achieving reelection is that the President of the United States from the opposing party is not letting…

America has been the land that has always grown and expanded. Expanded with the idea that you can do anything you want, build what you want, and create anything you please. Business boomed in the 1800’s with many men and many ideas that created with each other. Andrew Carnegie invested in the Woodruff Corporation and created the very first railroad sleeping car. In 1860 he ended up making five thousand dollars a year and ended with an annual income of almost fifty thousand dollars a year.…

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,…

Fifteen days after the initial submission of the Kansas-Nebraska act to Congress, the Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States (Appeal of the Independent Democrats) was issued (Chase). This manifesto was meant to comment on the constitutionality as well as validity of the Kansas-Nebraska act. It is obvious in its statements against the proposed bill: “We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights;…

Congress is a large, complex system within the United States federal government. It consists of two chapters: Senate and the House of Representatives. Both chapters contain a number of seats available for elected members. Members are elected through direct election. There are a total of 535 seats, 435 seats for members of the House, and 100 seats for senators. Members in the House serve an unlimited amount of two year terms. Members can stay a lifetime in congress, as long as they are reelected.…