Bicameral Structure

Bicameral structure is divided into two chambers the house and senate and we have this because of The Great Compromise. The founding fathers needed a system of government that has large states with a big population and small states with small populations. It was created for the big states for the House power and small states for the Senate power. An example is Wyoming with 1 and California with 53 representatives (largest one) and there are two senators for each Wyoming and California. There are requirements to be either in the House or the Senate and the requirements for the House is to be at least 25 years old, citizen of the United States at least 7 years and live in the state you represent. The House representatives are elected every 2
The first census was in 1970, at first it was one house seat but as the population grew, they wanted more house seats. In 1911, the house seats were capped because it went up to 500 House seats. Since it wasn’t sustainable, it was then created the 17th amendment in 1913. The 17th amendment was ratified to keep 435 House seats. An example of increased House seats would be in Texas the in 1950 there were 22 H.S, 2000 there were 32 H.S and now 2016 there are 36 H.S. The one that hasn’t change is Wyoming it was stayed at 1 house seat since 1950 and the 2000. In addition, the Congress has the bicameral congress divided into two the House, which declares war and raises taxes and the Senate who ratifies treaties and confirm the president appointments. The House Representatives are not average, the House has an estimate of 2-6 million and Senate estimate of 14 million dollars. Some will say this a problem and other do not think it is. As stated before, the bicameral was created because of the Great Compromise that was an agreement to have small states as Senate and large states as the House of