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A 5 page contention that legislative change is contingent upon historical and organizational
behavior and often comes in the form of leadership styles, House norms and party strength. While the governmetnal provisions we have in place to determine Congressional action are well-founded, actual legislative change is contingent to a large degree upon the personality of Congress at any particular point in history. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Legislative change is contingent upon historical and organizational behavior and often comes in the form of leadership styles, House norms and party strength. The framers of our Constitution wanted to
protect the right of the people to have local control over their government but wanted a capable system of government (Tannahill and Bedichek, 1991). They designed a federation system
where neither national or state governments would get their power from each other but from a constitution which applied to both provided that each would govern the people directly with
their own set of laws and people working for them, both would be the ultimate power within their established realm (Tannahill and Bedichek, 1991). Congress is the most powerful
member of this system. Congress effects legislative change, however, in direct relation to its organization and the particular members composing the whole.
Central to the political system which currently exists in the United States is the electoral process and that process is diven by bipartisanship. Under the electoral college large, medium,
and small states alike are rewarded with the same number of electoral votes as they have members in Congress. No state, therefore, could have less than three electoral votes,
two for each of its two senators and one for every Representative it has. Since all states have at least one representative in the house this equates to a
minimum of three electoral votes per state. This system is periodically criticized, as has been observed in the 2000 Presidential election, because it fails to represent the popular will.
In reality, however, the electoral process was never intended to represent the popular will. Never-the-less, a key element of the electoral system is that the forays of a
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