United States House of Representatives

Choose Your Seat at Party District Caucus Wisely Random seating at party district caucus can be compare to hunting in the dark with no bullets. Every seat at district caucus may assist in formation of binding and strategic alliances between the delegates who might not know one another. Understanding and forming a good battle strategy is as important as fighting the battle itself. When it comes to district caucus, choosing a seat is the strategy necessary to be mastered. Depending on the…

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…

to affect how the results look at the end of the day. Gerrymandering uses this to wrongly affect how the House of Representatives looks and is therefore destroying our democracy. Here is how it is done. In most states, the state legislature is the one in control of redistricting. Every 10 years, they get census data and use it to decide how to divide the state. It is not required for the state to redistrict, but most do. Government requires that the districts drawn must have an almost equal…

Ackerman, “You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil.” In the mid-1800’s, slavery was a controversial issue, but was abolished in the United States by Abraham Lincoln because he did not compromise his belief that if, “slavery is not wrong, nothing is…

legislative bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Differences between the House and Senate are varied. This is due to the Founding Fathers intent to create a system of government that was both responsive to the needs of the people and yet careful in its policy development. There was also the need for checks and balances of power and policymaking within the government to avoid one body having more influence than the other. Similarities include both Representatives and…

Today, the United States is dominated by two major parties. Those major parties are the Democrats and the Republicans. Since there are only two major parties, one might conclude there should not be any problems within the party, but rather the problems should exist between the two parties. That assumption would be wrong, both parties are facing internal challenges that must be solved. If these challenges are not solved, one might be able to predict a split of the parties. Unfortunately, that is…

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…

met at the state house which is now Independence Hall but for two weeks they adjourned meetings until they met their quorum. On May 25th 1787 all states are present except for Rhode Island. But by May 29th, Edmund Randolph presented a plan called the Virginia Plan which was written by James Madison and would provide for a strong centralized government composed of three branches, the judicial, executive and legislative to avert any corruption of power. Madison 's plan describes two houses: one…

away from. The choice was for a document that was loose and allowed states to govern themselves. There were many well know leaders that came together for both the Articles of Confederation and the eventual drafting of the Constitution. During the framing of the United States Constitution it had causes that spark each plan and draft and various outcomes after it was published. Following the American Revolution, the United States was in a position where they were free from England’s laws and…

The United States was able to defeat the British and become their own country. The important political role players stated that the country needed a document that represented the ideals and laws that this new country was to follow and enforce. Since they were a new country this was the first attempt to establish the functionality of the government. Congress felt,” Following the Declaration of Independence, the members of the Continental Congress realized it would be necessary to set up a…