United States congressional districts

State Political History The state of Texas has a long and complicated political history. Texas is very unique in the aspect that it is the only state in the U.S to have once been its own country. This in turn makes the political history of the state of Texas very unique and interesting. In recent years the political stage in Texas has become the hot topic of not only the state, but the entire country. Gregg Abbot is the current governed of Texas, and the first of which to use a wheelchair since

York’s Fourth Congressional District In the congressional election coming this November, the Democratic and Republican candidates will be fiercely campaigning for the Fourth District’s seat in the House of Representatives. In the analysis of the electoral race, we will closely examine various aspects of the district including demographics, income and wealth, religious preference, important federal issues in the area, partisanship, and previous voting patterns. New York’s 4th District is located on

the recent political history of your district and state? Bedford, Virginia is in the 5th congressional district, which is the commonwealth state. The areas that the Virginia's 5th congressional district cover is Franklin, Henry, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Greene, Cambbell, Bedford, Rappahannock, Brunswick, Appomattox, Albemarle, Madison, Prince Edward, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Pittysylvania, Cumberland, Charlottesville, and Danville. Virginia's first district representative was James Madison. The

could become divided or family members could be in different districts. I believe that there is a problem with our current system on redistricting mainly because us people don’t have a say in it. I think if we got to see what our state legislators were wanting to do in the future, then we would be able to have a say in it. One of the main negative effects of political redistricting is gerrymandering. Being able to just change the districts to keep or change the political power is unfair. They can do

To know rather state legislatures should continue to have responsibility of the redistricting and reappointment process, we must first know how and what it means to redistrict and reappoint. Well, Redistricting and Gerrymandering they are basically the same. Gerrymandering is simply attempting to find a political advantage in redistricting. Also it is very often the case that redistricting is sought for political advantage. This takes place by constitution at least every decade in most typical

Political Parties of North Carolina Representatives North Carolina holds thirteen seats in the house of representatives along with the two senate seats given to every state. As a state, North Carolina has elected representatives identifying primarily as republicans, with few democrats in Congress, a common distribution in states today with a Conservative Republican President and Republican-Majority Congress. In the House of Representatives, George Butterfield, George Holding, Walter Jones, David

The United States Congress is the supreme lawmaking body in the United States and one of the national legislatures in the world. Congress continues to be one of the few national assemblies that research and drafts their own lawmaking rather than simply voting on bills created by the government in power. Members of Congress use their office to benefit the nation versus district/state by conveying power and influence. A Caucus System is a meeting of many party members in any part of society or

Section 1 The District of Columbia will terminate its status as a mere federal district and instead be granted full statehood. The title of Washington D.C. will be terminated as well and instead the state will be appointed with the official title of New Columbia. Section 2 2. New Columbia is to be bestowed with proper representation in the legislative branch relative to the states current population. Columbia will receive two senators

should be represented by one congressional district. However, George Washington intervened and argued that 40,000 was too high, and reasoned that 30,000 was more reasonable and allow people to be represented adequately Washington’s proposal was incorporated in Article One, Section Two of the Constitution which states “representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State.” While the number of representatives

representative of the 9th district of Tennessee, Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen has emerged as a tactful candidate with goals in mind to help better the lives of his constituents through his representative style and his home-style. Theory I: Redistricting, Gerrymandering, and Candidate Emergence A congressional district is an electoral division of a state, electing and entitled to send one member to the United State House of Representatives. Districting is the initial set district, whereas redistricting