Congress Essay Examples

The governments established under Congressional Reconstruction made notable and lasting achievements. One positive outcome that resulted was the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which extended citizenship to African Americans and listed certain rights of all citizens such as the right to own property, bring lawsuits, and testify in court. Another major outcome was the Fifteenth…

Congressmen and Their Influences The notion that a Congressman runs for office with unselfish goals and goes to Washington to serve his country and represent his neighbors seems quaint and laughable compared to the way we currently regard members of Congress. Recent views suggest that most people feel that while the institution as a whole…

Does Congress Have Too Much Power Over Commerce?Narrow construction is not found in the Constitution, but the powers granted to Congress to regulate commerce are found. Exactly stated, Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes. This clause has no definite interpretation, but…

Transformation and inertia are presented as conflicting forces, balanced against one another in a kind of universal tension. The individual changes biologically as well as intellectually and spiritually, but his physical progression from youth to old age follows a path more or less set by nature. Nature itself changes cyclically, but the cycle of the…

Power In and Over Congress I feel the system is biased because there are inequalities among the representation and participation of interest groups and constituents in the political system. Unfortunately, poor and uneducated citizens arent as organized as interest groups, lobbyists and PACs because they lack the money, resources and connections necessary to influence congress…

The months of debate, the annual attempt by Sen. Jesses Helms (R-N.C.) to defund the agency, and a weeks-long delay in resolving Western land grazing rights may have seemed like deja vu, but they were in fact the elements of this year’s federal arts appropriation process. On Nov. 11, President Clinton finally signed the 1994…