POL SCI 40 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Joseph Gurney Cannon, Connecticut Compromise, Gerrymandering
14 Oct 2016
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Textbook: chapter 6 congress (pages 214 241) Disagreements make reaching a budget deal/bill very difficult. House and senate = center stage in national policymaking. Have polarized congressional parties: difficult to do anything when neither party has full control of house, senate, and white house. Collective action difficult under divided gov: majority party usually dominates. Always much easier to stop things from happening in congress than to make things happen. Congress = product of the great compromise at the constitutional convention: demands of large and small states. 2 per state elected by state legislature (bicameralism) Senate = lain senex = old man see(cid:374) as (cid:373)ore (cid:862)(cid:373)ature(cid:863) of the t(cid:449)o (cid:272)ha(cid:373)(cid:271)ers: higher minimum age and citizenship. Co(cid:374)gress" po(cid:449)er in big econ matters impose taxes coin and borrow money regulate commerce spend money on military and whatever. Necessary and proper clause: do whatever they want, aka elastic clause. House has to raise bills; senate amends them.
