They intended the House of Representatives to be close to the people and responsive to their needs.
The framers of the Constitution anticipated that the Senate would be an equal arm of the government. The House of Representatives is a representational arm of government.
The House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach federal officials in the US.
Alaska has two members in the Senate and one member in the House of Representatives.
Frederick Muhlenberg became the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives in 1789.
There are 435 voting members of the US House representing the 50 US states. There are even more non voting representatives that represent US territories and Washington DC. Non voting representatives can only vote in committees.
No, despite the fact that many historians believe that the framers of the Constitution intended or expected the President to be chosen by the House of Representatives most of the time, it hasn't happened since 1824.
The framers were the people in colonial America responsible for what rules the country would be run on. The framers held that a contract exist between the senate and the house of representatives.
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The framers of the Constitution anticipated that the Senate would be an equal arm of the government. The House of Representatives is a representational arm of government.
The senate and the House of Representatives. -Gradpoint/H
The framers agreed to create the United States Senate and House of Representatives as a compromise. During the Constitutional Convention, framers disagreed on whether or not the legislative branch of government should represent the states equally or based on population. As such, the Senate has an equal number of 2 representatives for each state, and the House of Representatives has a certain number of representatives for each state depending on population.
because the framers disagreed on the legislative branch representing state equally or population based, so they created the Senate (2 representatives from each state) and the House of Representatives (representatives based on population).
The US House of Representatives.
In the United States, The Framers wanted the newly formed democracy to be balanced and be represented by the people (meaning the common people, in this case educated white males, to head the House of Representatives) But because the Framers didn't trust the common people to run government completely they split Congress into two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which is considered more elitist and more prestigious.
They hoped that the smaller Senate would be a more enlightened and responsible body than the House of Representatives