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1POLITICAL SCIENCE1. Identify each of the important differences that exist in the way the House ofRepresentatives and the Senate represent the American people. Does the existence of twovery different, yet co-equal law-making bodies enhance our democracy, or hinder it?Explain.United States of America is a bicameral legislature which shares the concept of alegislation keeping in mind the interests of both its people and the Welfare of the state takencollectively. House of the representatives seek the Welfare and interest of the people whoserepresentation is done by 435 members whereas the Senate represents 2 members from each statewhich are concerned about the development of the state. Since United States have two differentset of laws 1 for the Federal government and another for the state government both there interesthave to be maintained for which bicameral legislature is needed1. As the forefathers of theconstitution saw it fit that the division of power should be equal they have made this system toestablish democracy as anyone house does not have the power of absolute legislation in thecountry. 2. Do members of Congress truly care about the views of average Americans? Relate howan examination of the “sociological representation” and “agency representation” ofmembers of Congress can give us very different answers to this question. Be sure to relatethe details of the current membership of Congress. What is your view? Do they really careabout our views?It has been observed that members of the Congress are more focused on the issues ofsocial logical representation which are agenda driven and take the issues of gay rights uncertaintopics specific to various ethnic groups. Whereas when agency representation is taken into1Inglehart, Ronald.The Silent Revolution (2017).

2POLITICAL SCIENCEaccount it refers to different agencies of the government in which the Congress members havekeen interest in solving the problems because they are the servants and members of the oversightcommittees of many government agencies2. Recently it has been in use that the Congressmember representing San Francisco is more interested in the issues of gay rights as a substantialnumber of people are gay in that constituency. In the same way Senator of the New Hampshire isa very knowledgeable person in the matters of financial issues and you also serves in thecommittee of Senate Banking.3. Explain how (a) incumbency, (b) apportionment and redistricting, and (c) directpatronage help to keep most of the same people in Congress, election after election. Does ithurt our democracy to have mostly the same people in office after every election? Explainyour reasoning.Incumbency is holding of a political affairs for which candidate is running for. Congressmembers have many tools with the help of which they keep theiroffice for reelection.Incumbency helps the respective candidates to keep the office and scare off the candidates as itprovides money contacts and popularity. Apportionment is the process of seat allocation in theCongress among 50 states3. Whereas, redistricting is the process of redrawing districts of electionand redistribution of representatives in the legislative. Both these things happen at every 10years. It is done to pit in comments of the same party against each other and for voter clusteringan ideological background. Direct patronage is used with the help of Legislative bodies to createlocal projects which are not necessary but had done to ensure the victory of local representativesin their home district.2 Hamilton, Melissa. "Constitutional Law and the Role of Scientific Evidence: The Transformative Potential of Doe v. Snyder."Boston College Law Review58.6 (2017): E-Supp.3 McKay, David.American politics and society. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

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