Paper On Congress Behavior
Essay by 24 • December 2, 2010 • 595 Words (3 Pages) • 1,280 Views
Many Americans in today society live in a world that have many questions about the government system and have many questions regarding how the institution, the system works. Due to the fact that many Americans does not have a clue on how it works because of the complications of the system. There are so many different sectors, views and opinions coming from many of the different representatives but many citizens are tend to over looking at the important connections between them and the national government. There are hearings, but is it fair? There are members who agree or oppose to the bill but sometimes we do not know the whole truth on the reason way it is this way. As many people may know, the members of the United States Congress are chosen to represent the people from each of the fifty states. With different racial backgrounds and genders, it is bound to clash heads. Many voters are clueless on how their representative behaves because it's only a small part in their lives that they have to worry about. There are doing things for their own benefit, especially on what they actually believes in and trying to benefit their colleagues. During the election years, this is when the American has an impact on how the congress behaves, they're trying to meet the public demands when people are voicing out. There are many different opinions coming out in every direction because voters have a right in voicing the issue and having a legislator vote will help make them notice the issue. How important the issue is, especially when the citizens have separate views and ideas about it but often time's representatives will try to satisfy themselves so that in the long run they'll benefit. Most often, the representative do what they believe in. For example on abortion laws, there are split ideas between Republicans and Democratic because of the conservative and liberal parties. According the Federalist # 57 they mention that the representatives' would listen to what the voters have to say and that Madison thinks that if there is no people to support representatives, they wont exist at all because there would be no support1. He also believes that representatives would need to stay true to his supporters
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