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  • Minority Representation In Congress
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    Introduction In forming a government for the people, by the people, and of the people, our Founding Fathers developed the idea a bi-cameral legislature. This Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate, thus became known as the people's branch of government. American children are taught in schools that anyone can be elected to Congress, so long as they meet the qualifications of the Constitution. So long as you meet the age and residency requirements you are indeed qualified to...
  • Strength Of Public Support For Term Limits
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    Term Limits For Legislators When the Constitution of the United States was adopted in 1789, it was without direction regarding term limits for legislators. At the time, professional politicians were unheard of, and the idea of someone serving for more than one or two terms was unlikely. So the Constitution did not formally address the issue of term limits, although it was understood that officeholders would limit themselves to one or two terms and then return to private life (1). With the advent...
  • Mr Clymer
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    George Clymer was born in Philedelphia in 1739. His father was from a respectable family of bristol, in England and after his emigration to america became married to a lady from Philedelphia. Clymer was left by his parents in an orphanage at the young age of seven. He was then taken care of by his maternal uncle William Coleman, a who was respected by everyone in PhildelphiaThe education of Clymer was directed by his uncle. He was the perfect man for the job. Coleman had a great mind and early i...
  • Members Homes And Many Regulatory Policies
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    Congressmen and Their Influences The notion that a Congressman ran for office for unselfish goals and went away to Washington to serve his country and represent his neighbors seems quaint compared to the way that we currently regard members of congress. Recent views have suggested that most people felt that while the institution on the whole was corrupt, but that their representative was a good person and servant of the electorate. More and more each member is scrutinized and judged harsher by t...
  • Free Publicity The Member Of Congress
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    While the Constitution intentionally provides checks on congressional power, it also grants Congress significant powers in three important areas: economic affairs, domestic affairs, and foreign affairs. In addition, Congress is granted flexibility in the elastic clause that allows Congress to pass laws that are 'necessary and proper' for executing the powers explicitly assigned to it in Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution. It is not only the characteristics of congressmen that make Congress...
  • Inaccurate Information About The Members Of Congress
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    Is Our Congress Bad Twenty-five years ago, Richard F. Fenno, Jr. said that people love their members of Congress but hate the Congress, but at the end of the 1990's, Fenno might be wrong because of some potential problems for the members of Congress and the Congress. People do not love their members of Congress at all because the members of Congress do not know what people really want and also public lack of information about what they do by the modern mass media at the end of 1990's. Another po...
  • Great Amount Of Influence Over Congress Members
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    Power In and Over Congress feel the system is biased because there are inequalities among the representation and participation of interest groups and constituents in the political system. Unfortunately, poor and uneducated citizens aren't as organized as interest groups, lobbyists and PACs because they lack the money, resources and connections necessary to influence congress members on legislative bills. It is evident that, "businesses, interest groups and labor unions are spending more than $10...
  • Bad Image Of The Congress
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    No body of government truly has a truly perfect image in the U.S., but in particular is the congress. There are quite a few theories as to why Congress has a bad public image. Congress may have a poor public image but if it weren't for it's own members speaking ill of the institution then the image problem could easily be fixed. I think one of the main reasons why Congress has a poor public image is because its members often times criticize it. Many congressional candidates run on the idea that ...
  • Members Of Congress Help Constituents
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    In recent years, there has been a push for term limits, as a means of getting "new blood" into Congress. However, at the same time that a number of states have seen referendums pass demanding term limits on local and state public officials and members of Congress, incumbent members of Congress from those same states have easily won reelection. And while the public has been pushing to limit members of the House of Representatives to no more than six terms (or twelve years in office), and members ...
  • African American Members Vote Liberal
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    The question of whether the Congress is representative towards the American public has been a longstanding question that has become the spotlight of numerous political debates. Many people believe that with a membership of nearly all-white males from a higher social status in society, it is nearly impossible for a true representation to occur. This is a mistake. The Congress is a fair representation of the American public. With the use of a bicameral legislature that serves both public sentiment...

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