POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Richard Fenno, Gerrymandering
10 Jan 2019
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House (lower house: 25 years old, 7 years of citizenship, 2-year term, local representation. Senate (upper house: 30 years old, 9 years of citizenship, 6-year term, state representation. House: origination of all tax bills, vote to impeach. House: rule committee (12 people, choose by speaker of the house) Determine rules for debate for bills: strong leadership, speaker of the house, house of representative. Senate: filibusters, debate until no one have anything to say, weaker leadership. Demographics: women are not being represented, half of the population are new (fewer than six years) Four constituencies: geographic, every voter lives in your district, reelection. Redistricting/ creation of safe district : the reelective can change the districting. Congressional districts (house only: reapportionment, adding or subtracting districts from a state after the census, redistricting, redrawing the geographic boundaries of districts, gerrymandering, drawing of district lines to benefit a specific political party, incumbent, or group. National mood: people gotten angry and distrust in government.
