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    knowledge and civic engagement, where does true power lie in a representative democracy? Concentrated in the hands of a few politicians or widely dispersed amongst voting citizens? By definition, a representative democracy is a form of government that is chosen to represent a large group of people. After conducting elections, the elected are to proceed with affirmative government actions by fulfilling society’s needs. A representative democracy emphasizes active participation and political interest

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    Representative Democracy is better for the United States than a Direct Democracy. Democracies are based on the citizen’s ability to judge things such as laws, propositions, bonds, budgets, representatives, and candidates. The type of democracy helps determine what the citizens are judging. In a direct democracy citizens would be judging the candidates and issues themselves and in a representative democracy, the citizens are judging the representatives and their ability to stay true to the citizens

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    The United States Congress is a bicameral institution divided into two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms, and population determines their number per state. Senators are apportioned equally, with each state receiving two, and they serve six-year terms, with individual senators’ terms being staggered in two-year intervals. The Founders chose this way of organizing the chambers as a compromise between states with large

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    elected in a partisan statewide election and they get paid $7,200 annually. The current Lieutenant Governor of Texas, is Dan Patrick (42nd). Dan Patrick is a Republican and a Baptist. He is also a radio talk show host. For the Texas House of Representatives, the presiding officer is the Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House serves a 2 year term, is an elected member of the TX House and is selected by members of the House. The current Speaker of the House is Joe Straus.

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    As per distributed media reports, work pioneers, including authorities at the AFL-CIO, Change to Win organization, and others, are making entry of the Representative Free Decision Act ("EFCA") their top administrative need in the new 111th Congress set to start in January 2009. In its present structure, EFCA would adjust the National Work Relations Act ("NLRA") to: (1) Require the National Work Relations Board ("NLRB") guarantee a union based upon a dominant part card check (rather than ensuring

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    jobs all have important roles many of those take place in jobs like officeholders, which are state representatives, state senators, or state elected officials. They hold a job in which they acquire knowledge about. The person who holds a position in trust is the most likely to get appointed towards that specific office. A state representative must be about twenty-one years of age. That state representative should find ways to have their district succeed; they must also listen to constitutes with any

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    Representative Huffman represents California’s 2nd Congressional District and has done so since his election in 2013. Regionally, the District is located on the coast of Northern California, stretching from North of San Francisco to the California border with Oregon. Furthermore, the District is made up of several counties, including Marin, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, and parts of Sonoma. Because of the lack of large urban centers such as Los Angeles or San Francisco, the district is

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    known as the upper house, and the House of Representatives is known as the lower house. The Legislature of the United States government is bicameral; this means that it is “a governmental body with two houses or chambers” (Dictionary.com). These two chambers are known as the Senate and the House of Representatives. The formation of these two chambers was

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    formal qualifications for Texas House of Representatives are twenty-one years old and two year resident of the state. For Texas Senate, you have to be twenty-six years old and five years resident of the state. Informal qualifications for both parties are being a Republican, be the dominant race in the district, be a lawyer, and have access to a large amount of money (32 - 41). Texas House representatives have two year terms, as the Texas Senate representatives have four year terms. Also, neither of

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    Week1 Discussion I believe that the US senate representation have to have the same number of elected representatives for each region. Definitively, in the United States wealthy citizens are better represented than poor people, even though rich and poor individuals share the same political affiliation. Political inequality is when a policy benefits a group more than other. Usually, politic favoritisms or benefits are reflected in the richer citizens. Equal representation grows the functioning of

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