Clinton was impeached as President of the United States on December 19‚ 1998 by the House of Representatives. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice. The Senate acquitted Clinton on both counts in a trail concluding on February 12‚ 1999. The charges arose from an investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Originally dealing with the failed land deal years earlier known as Whitewater‚ Starr expanded his investigation into Clinton’s conduct during the sexual harassment lawsuit
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Article 1 in the Constitution governs how the legislative branch will be operative. The main focal point of Congress is to create laws. It created a bicameral legislative branch which is a governmental body with two houses‚ known as the United States congress. The framers of the Constitution thought that having two houses would limit the amount of preposterous submissions that came through Congress. The two houses that make up the legislative branch are the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although
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Where does power lie in Congress? Congress in the US is granted all legislative powers by the Constitution‚ the power to appropriate funds‚ regulate trade and commerce and to formally declare war. Although the President imposes his will on all of these activities Congress is still an extremely important and powerful body; arguably today it has a superior mandate as President Bush was elected on a popular minority and less recently. Congress is regularly re-elected (every two years) and because of
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distinctly trichotomizes judicial‚ legislative‚ and executive power between the Supreme Court‚ Congress‚ and the President‚ allowing a system that functions through checks and balances. Since congress is a political organ whose members have different interests‚ this separation of power has not been conducive to drafting policies that effectively address pressing public issues. Madison expands on this lack of efficacy when he notes that “the powers of the legislative organs of government are derived from
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AP Essay- Congress The framers of the Constitution created a bicameral legislation where there were two chambers of congress made. There was the Senate and the House of Representatives and these two chambers split the necessary duties that congress needed to fulfill. The framers of the Constitution chose a bicameral legislature because they did not want all powers of the government concentrated in a single government institution as they would have been if a unicameral legislature was used. They
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The United States Congress is the bicameral council of the national administration of the United States comprising of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington‚ D.c. Both agents and congresspersons are picked through immediate decision‚ however opening in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial arrangement. Parts are partnered to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party‚ and just once in a while to an outsider or as independents
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1. There are many ways in how a congress person can represent the American people. There are two kinds of representation for a congress person‚ which are sociological and agency. Sociological is type of representation‚ in where representatives have the same cultural background or traits as their constituents. For example‚ if a congress person has the same ethnic as their constituents‚ the people will feel that they are well representative at national level. The second principle is called Agency representation
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Polarization in Congress leads to less bills reaching the President for review. While a Congress that passes every bill it meets provides no benefits‚ Congressmen should not shirk their duties primarily due to polarization. Representatives’ achievements for the term should instead be limited on properly in-depth debate and discussion relating to the legislature they need to pass. However‚ at an increasing rate‚ senators drop bills out of the law-generating cycle (Andris‚ 10). Andris‚ et al‚ explains:
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The Congress Worksheet Respond to the following prompts in your own typed document. Your responses should be in your own words (don’t simply copy and paste!). You may include the prompts themselves in your submission. Submit your answers to turnitin.com as a word document by 7:25am on Friday‚ 12/4. 1. List four enumerated powers granted to Congress by the Constitution (Article I‚ Section 8) a. b. c. d. 2. The implied power of Congress comes from the "necessary and proper clause" which is also referred
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What can congress do to influence the bureaucracy? In ordinary usage‚ “bureaucracy” refers to a complex‚ specialized organization composed of non-elected‚ highly trained professional administrators and clerks hired on a full-time basis to perform administrative services and tasks. Bureaucratic organizations are broken up into specialized departments or ministries‚ to each of which is assigned responsibility for pursuing a limited number of the government’s many official goals and policies those
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