The United States Constitution was put into place on September 17 of 1787. This took …show more content…
It gives them the authority to bring laws into the country, propose bills that will become laws if both Senate and House of Representatives accept the bill. It gives the Congress the power to do many things such as to go to send the army to war, raise an army and establish rules for immigration. The Congress also does many other things because the Constitution allows them to do so. “Congress is the legislative, or lawmaking, branch of our national government. It shares power with the president and the Supreme Court. The writers of the U.S. Constitution thought Congress was so important, they listed it first” (Scholastic, 2017). Both the Senate and House of Representatives are part of the Congress. The Senate is made up of two people from each state while the House of Representatives has 435 members and the size of the state varies on how many members each state has. California being a much bigger state has 52 people representing them while a smaller populated state like North Dakota just has one member representing