United States congressional districts

on a sections of the population previously hidden or unheard. Three House members are openly gay, and two lawmakers, Senator Max Cleland, and freshman Representative Jim Langevin, both democrats, use wheelchairs. These numbers indicate today’s Congressional members are overwhelmingly able-bodied and heterosexual.      The Senate is prone to even less diversity with 2001 seeing no change in its minority composition. The Senate's fair-skinned minority population stayed at three: Hawaii's Daniel Akaka

Electoral College The Electoral College in the United States is used to elect the president and vice president every four years. While average citizens do not get to vote on the President directly we do have a say in which candidate our state votes for. The Electoral College is made up of your states House of Representatives and its Senate. Each state is allowed a minimum of 2 votes, which is equal to the number of senators they have, and the rest of the votes come from the number of its US

addition, the decision of both the lower court and the Supreme is determining whether such arrests by military officials violates due process of law, infringes the doctrine mandating the supremacy of civilian authority over the military and defies a congressional ratification ruling out the detention of U.S. citizens unless authorized by Congress. This paper shall discus the cases Padilla v. Rumsfeld (pages 325-331 in the Darmer text) and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (pages 333-366 in the Darmer text). The first section

University Robert H. McKinney School of Law before entering private practice. After losing two bids for a U.S. congressional seat in 1988 and 1990, he became a conservative radio and television talk show host from 1994 to 1999. Pence was elected to the United States Congress in 2000 and represented Indiana's 2nd congressional district and Indiana's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013. He served as the chairman of the House Republican Conference from

and daughter from their owner for a sum of $800. Their son was born a few years later. In 1861 Smalls was hired as a deckhand on the Confederate transport steamer Planter captained by General Roswell Ripley, the commander of the Second Military District of South

Over the last several decades, American politics scholars have sought to understand the causes of increasing partisanship and polarization in the United States Congress. Since the 1970s, the ideological positions of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, have widened (Abramowitz and Saunders, 2008; Levendusky; 2010). This ideological divide also promotes a perception among the American public that Congress has increasingly become ineffective and polarized to a point

Out of all 27 congressional districts in New York I chose the fifth congressional district of New York. For ten years, from 2003 to 2013, the fifth district included less of the northwestern Nassau County, and a lot of northeastern Queens County. The Queens section of the district consisted of the areas of: Flushing, Jamaica Estates, Little Neck, Bayside, Corona, Douglaston, and Whitestone. The Nassau portion of the district included: Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Albertson, Great Neck, and

Ratf**ked is a term used in political science to describe political sabotage or dirty plans. David Daley, in his book of the same name, describes Republicans incentives in 2010 to take control of state legislatures and control congressional redistricting processes. Republicans were then able to take redistrict in favor of a republican controlled congress being elected. This plan was entitled The Redistricting Majority Project or REDMAP (Daley 2016). After the 2008 election, the future of the

doctrine. The majority’s opinion in Shelby County v. Holder stated that the VRA treated the sovereignty of the states differently by subjecting only certain states and districts to federal regulation (Litman 2016: 1209). The Court has historically has treated cases such as this with the rational basis test. This was the case for South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966) and City of Rome v. United States (1980). Under these cases, it was decided that coverage formula was a rational tool to be used in order to

The main arguments for proponents of the United States Electoral College are based on four ideals. The Electoral College is a beneficial way in which the United States elects the President because it contributes to the unification of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support in order to be elected, enhances the status of the interests for the minority, contributes to the political stability of the nation by encouraging the two-party majority system, and the Electoral College maintains