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Chapter 4, Congress: Quagmire of Freedom Summary and Analysis
To explain the need of a legislative branch of government in a democracy, the reader must understand that societies need laws and that people are busy. The Congress was designed to make laws despite the lack of input from the common American citizen. Congress was designed to not only make laws, but to give the Founding Fathers a job when drafting the Constitution was done. In order to fairly represent all states, the Founding Fathers created both the House of Representatives, the larger of two chambers of Congress, and the Senate. Both chambers are run by the Speaker of the House. The members of Congress sponsor a bill and that bill is sent to a committee. After the committee the bill is then voted on the floor. After a bill passes one house it is sent to the other to again be voted on. After the Congress, the bill must...
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