William Paterson played a key role in creating our house of Representatives and the Senate because without his proposal‚ we would not have the governing system that we have today. He was prepared to create a system and compromise with other people’s ideas. He had gone to Princeton University and was a very smart man. After school‚ he had begun studying the law in the city of Princeton under Richard Stockton. When the War of Independence had begun‚ he had joined the vanguard of the New Jersey patriots
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1787‚ by representatives from the twelve states that were in attendance. 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
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The Hawaiian language is native to the United States‚ specifically the state of Hawaii. It belongs to the Austronesian family‚ on the Malayo-Polynesian branch‚ of the Oceanic language group. It is said that Tahitian or Marquesan travelers sailed to the Hawaiian archipelago around 1000 A.D‚ settling onto the islands and creating Hawaiian. Hawaiian was the only language spoken there until Captain Cook’s arrival in 1778. Currently‚ there are 1000 native speakers and 8000 fluent speakers of the Hawaiian
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people‚ shall not perish from the Earth.” This quote describes how the current-day government was made for the people by ordinary citizens‚ and that’s why it functions so well and shouldn’t be demolished. The Executive Branch should not abolish either the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch because it would mean a complete loss of public representation for the people. In addition‚ a reasonable division of power invested amongst the different parts of the government to secure a system of checks
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the executive branch weak or strong is a murky task. Like nearly all questions about the true intentions of the founders‚ there was hardly any consensus‚ and the only consensus that was possible was a middle ground between a strong executive and a weak one. Gouverneur Morris explained the goal as “make him too weak: the Legislature will usurp his powers… make him too strong” and “[he] will usurp on the Legislature.” There was a delicate balance of creating an effective‚ independent Executive and
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study in the US. At first‚ I didn’t pay any attention to the US government and its issues‚ until I take a government class. I started to have a strong interest in this subject. Here is a summary of the district I’m currently living on and its representative‚ and my interest on political issue. I’m currently living in the Texas’s 18th Congressional District. It is a small district located in Houston city‚ Texas. There are roughly 750000 people living in the district‚ the male and female ratio is
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did this achievement impact you. (300 words max) It wasn’t till the third year of college that this ‘soccer playing ghissu’ decided to change his appellation to ‘a leader’ by contesting in the elections for the post of Councillor in the Student Affairs Council. The challenges: first‚ winning the elections; and second‚ performing the roles and shouldering the responsibilities of a senator. I was contesting from the infamous Constituency-1 of Cautley Bhawan‚ alongside Prashant‚ a junior in a department
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The Legislative Branch The legislative branch is the most powerful branch in government. The legislative branch is in charge of making and passing laws. They have the power to override a president’s decision‚ stop laws from being passed‚ and basically control all decisions the governments makes. The legislative branch‚ also called the congress‚ consists of the House of Representatives and the senate. The reason for two houses of congress is to balance out the concerns of smaller but more populated
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DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage Grammar & Usage Review Test 1 Part A Part B http://www.aristo.com.hk 1 DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage Grammar Practice In this article‚ some of the verbs are incorrect. Decide if the underlined verbs are correct. The first two have been done for you. P.62 http://www.aristo.com.hk 2 DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage The Olympics (1) had changed the lives of (1) has changed _____________
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’Id rather be a senator than a member of the house of representatives’ Both houses need each other in order to function as they are both part of the legislative branch of government however there are many arguments to suggest that senate is more prestigious that the house of representatives. American citizens see a lot more pride in their senator as they represent the entire state not just a small region within it. For example Representative Joe Baca represents a single congressional region
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