Part 1 The United States establishes a bicameral legislature, which is a legislature made up of two houses and they are the Senate and the House of Representative. Through the aspect of history, the framers of the constitution knew are familiar to the British Parliament of two-house system. And for practical, the framers have to create a two-chambered body in order to the issue between New Jersey plan and Virginia plan. In theoretical way, and they favored a bicameral Congress for two houses checking each other (Crouse, Slide 3). The House of Representative contains 435 members, and every member serves for two year terms (Crouse, Slide 8). Members of the office have to be at least 25 years of age, have been a citizen for at least …show more content…
From Constitution: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Trib (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3).” Congress is granted power to regulate interstate and foreign trade (Crouse, Slide 4). Commerce power is needed to prevent the state to interfere trading between other states and it is Congress's greatest control among the states. It is important that it gives the government a great amount of income. On the other hand, it helps the government to establish good relationships with foreign countries. However it still has limits, Congress cannot tax exports, favor the ports of one State over another, require "Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter... in another." or interfere with the slave …show more content…
First, The clerk of the House numbers and gives a short title to each bill as it is introduced. Then the bill enters the House Journal and the Congressional Record for the day. The bill has received its first reading and all bills are printed after introduction and distributed to the members of the House. After the first reading, the Speaker refers the bill to the standing committees. Standing Committee sift through all bills. Most of the bill will be rejected, but if the bill is reported, it steer toward debate in the