POLI SCI 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bicameralism, Chuck Grassley, Connecticut Compromise
10 Oct 2018
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Nature of the constitution-institutional and procedural features. Kavanagh nomination and charged with sexual assault: christine blasey ford insisting on fbbi investigation before testifying, senate judiciary chairman charles grassley says hearing must take place on. Budget action: authority to spend ends september 20th. Congress needs to enact new budget legislator: senate passed a bill to fund through dec. 7th with little funding for wall, instead of the billon the president asked for. First: great compromise and balancing the interests of large states vs. small states: original proposal said representation is about taxes or population size, smaller states objected, solution became a bicameral legislature. House would have proportional representation; senate would have 2 from each state regardless of size. Articles 1- 3: powers of different branches: legislative, judicial, executive. Article 4: state powers with respect with one another, admission of a new state. Article 6: honoring debts; supremacy of federal law, oaths.
