Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Does Congress Have Too Much Power Or Not Enough?

Congress was made by our founding fathers. They have all of the legislative power of the United States. Is this too much or not enough? The answer is neither. Congress has just the right amount of power. We have two houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. There are two Senators from each state and there are a total of 435 Representatives for the House, each state getting its share through population. If one house wants to make a law, they have to have a majority in favor, and then it goes to the other house, which must have the majority in favor also. If they both have the majority in favor of the law, it goes to the President. If one house doesn’t have the majority, the bill is killed. The President has to sign the bill to make it a law, or he can wait for ten days and it becomes a law. He can also send it back to Congress with his complaints, and then each house must have a two-thirds vote to pass the law. This is a brilliant way that the founding fathers came up with. This gives Congress not too much; and not too little power.

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