POLS 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Congressional Budget Office, Connecticut Compromise, Party System

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Congress"s comeback - three strategies: create and nurture national constituencies. Build organizations and institutions within congress to compete with the president. Office of technology assessment - review proposed executive programs. Committees, sub-committees, etc: keep the money flowing to incumbents . Unlike in the 19th centuryit"s not a source of congressional power . Popularity combined with energy is a dangerous combination . Three reasons the presidency expanded in power: The institution of primaries had a positive effect on presidential candidates. Delegates did not want to re-open wounds that led to great. Framers ran out of time for a more comprehensive discussion. No expectation that electors would produce a majority vote (assumed no political parties) Prevailing wisdom: ec wouldn"t be involved with the people. Rise of political parties state legislature began to choose electors who were reliable partisans. 2 party system guaranteed that electoral vote would produce majority thus house delegations would not select president and vice president.

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