POLISCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Special Relationship
1 Apr 2016
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And suppose you were a member of congress. House: 435 members, republican majority, they all run every two years, 25 years old/7 years a citizen/live in state at time of election, state requirements. 1/3 of the body runs every six years: two for each state = 100, republican controlled. 30 years old/9 years a citizen/reside in state. Massachusetts: 40 senators, 160 house, called the great and general court , overwhelmingly democratic (35 h, 6 s) Story line: compromise v. truth, group v. individual, deliberation v. decisiveness, talk v. action. The politics of false consensus: this false belief in consensus leads to a level of frustration with the inefficiency of democracy and with congress in particular. Congress: article i in the constitution provides for congress. Founders intention: to thwart the concentration of power in a single institution, to balance large and small states: bicameralism, both passion and contemplation (types of selection, expected congress to be the dominant institution, slow and deliberative.
