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The House of Representatives:

The part of the government most responsive to public opinion. Each state is represented in the House based on population.Each state gets at least one member, each member represents one district within a state. There can be no more than 435 members in the house. The entire house is reelected every two years in order to keep them responsive to the people. To run for a seat in the senate, you must be at least 25 years old and a resident of the state that you represent. The speaker of the house leads.

The Senate:

This part of Congress makes decisions based on wisdom and experiences of the members. Every 2 years 1/3 of the members are reelected. They stagger elections in hopes that it will limit one group (the public) from taking control of the whole senate in one single election. Each state has two senators who must be at least thirty years old and live in the state he or she represents. Representatives serve six-year terms. Senate majority leader is the head of the Senate.

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Lawmaking: Originate from executive branch, only congress can make laws.

Representing the people: Each member of congress represents a certain district in each state to make sure that the citizens have a voice.

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#3 What are the Qualification to become a Representative and Senator

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#3 What are the Qualification to become a Representative and Senator

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Representative- Must be 25 years old and a citizen of the U.S. A for seven years. Representative must be a resident of the state he's elected.

Senator- 30 years old and a citizen of the U.S.A for nine years.

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#4 How are members selected for congress? 

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#4 How are members selected for congress? 

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There are two houses in congress the senate and house of representatives. Each of the fifty states elect 2 senators for 6 years. There are 100 total seats in the senate. The country is also divided into 435 congressional districts with a population of about 710,000 per district. Each district elects a representative to the house for a 2 year term.

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#7 Powers of Congress and the Elastic Clause

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#7 Powers of Congress and the Elastic Clause

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The 27 expressed powers of Congress listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grant the                legislative branch a huge amount of authority over American national policy, both foreign and domestic.
The most important powers include the power to tax, to borrow money, to regulate commerce and currency, to declare war, and to raise armies and maintain the navy. These powers give Congress the authority to set policy on the most basic matters of war and peace.
Congress's other expressed powers are wide-ranging, including:
The power to establish rules to allow foreign-born immigrants to become
citizens of the United States. The power to make rules for bankruptcies. The power to punish counterfeiters .The power to set up a national post office.The power to provide for copyrights and patents to protect the work of inventors and artists. The power to organize all federal courts below the Supreme Court. The power to make rules to regulate the conduct of the armed forces. The power to call out the militia to defend the country from invasions or insurrections. The power to organize and discipline the militia. The power to govern the federal capital (Washington, DC). The power to acquire lands from the states for use by the federal government. The power to "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers...." the last one kind of leaves the powers of congress open which could extend the powers to what they see the defintion. thats the elastic clause

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Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution places three important limits on Congress and its powers. Congress cannot pass ex post facto laws which outlaws stuff after its been done. they cant pass bills of atainder to punish people outside of the court system. they also cant suspend the writ of habaes corpus unless there is a national emergancy

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In Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. constitution it says that states cannot print money, pass laws that break contracts, make deals with foreign powers, make their own money, make anyone a king or a queen (or any nobility), can't make taxes on imports from other states and states cannot make their own armies or start their own wars.

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#10 What significant changes (Amendments) have been made to Article 1?

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#10 What significant changes (Amendments) have been made to Article 1?

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Eleminated comulative voting and reduce the size of the house representative from 177 to 118 member. change code of celebrates