POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Enumerated Powers, Connecticut Compromise, Bicameralism
15 May 2014
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Citizens restricting commission: word of the day: redistricting organization for ca. 5 democrats, 5 republicans, 4 independent draws districts for state assembly and senate race republicans unsuccessfully challenged meps. Convention the framers created a bicameral legislature with distinct features of each chamber being designed to resolve the conflict: a house of representatives, with seats allocated by population and members elected by the. Qualifications for office holding the property-holding and religious qualifications included in many state constitutions were explicitly rejected: they also rejected a proposal to forbid a member"s reelection to office after serving a term. Powers of congress: the articles had included a reelection restriction, but the framers thought it had weakened. The necessary and proper clause this clause has provided the single most extensive grant of power in the constitution, giving. Congress authority over many different spheres of public policy: it was under this authority that congress banned discrimination in public accommodations and housing in the 1960"s.
