The Bicameral Congress

Consist of a congress

1. Senate

2. House of representatives

 

House of representatives 

Requirements

-Determined by population

-No state has fewer than one

1. Minimun of 25 years old

2. 7 years of citizenship

3. Legal resident of the state you represent 

 

rights

1. To impeach the president and other federal officials

2. To decide presidential elections if no candidate wins the majority of the electoral college

3. The power of the pulse : All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representative 

 

 

Senate

Requirements

-Two senators from each state for a total of 100

-Elected by the people

1. Minimum of 30 years old

2. 9 years of citizenship

3. Legal resident of the state you represent

 

rights

1. To hold impeachment trials

2. To ratify treaties

3. To confirm the appointment of executive officers that require Senate confirmation

 

+ Impeachment

like a criminal indictment

Decide that person has done something bad enough to bring him to trial

Once the official is impeached, the trial happens in the Senate

Not kicking the official out of office

 

The reason why it becomes the Bicameral Congress

1. Historical

- State population is diffrent

- States with small populations wanted equl representation

- States with large populations wanted proportional representation

- Roger Serman made the Connecticut Compromise, The great Compromise

 

2. Practical

Federalist 51

In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency to divide the legislature into different branches. And to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other and the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit.

공화정에서는 입법부가 필연적으로 우위를 점한다. 입법부를 다른 부서로 나누는 것은 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 조치이다. 그리고 그것들을 서로 다른 선택 방식과 다양한 행동 원칙을 통해 서로 거의 관련이 없는 것으로 간주하고 공통 기능의 성격과 사회에 대한 공통 의존성을 인정한다.

 

단어 및 구

The framers of the Constitution : 헌법 제정자들

revenue : 수익

ratify : 비준하다

treaty : 조약

confirmation : 확정

immune : 면역이 된, 면제된

republican : 공화주의

legislative : 입법의

predominate : 우세하다

remedy : 해결하다

render : 간주하다

impeachment : 탄핵

indictment : 기소

 

출처 : The Bicameral Congress : Crash Course Government and Politics, CrashCourse, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9defOwVWS8&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOfse2ncvffeelTrqvhrz8H&index=3