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What is one power unique to the Senate and why did the framers give this power to the Senate?
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. Basically, the House serves as a grand jury that may indict an office holder. The Senate conducts the actual trial. The framers intentionally split these duties between the houses because the House is less exclusive. The Senate members serve longer terms (less elections) and are for that reason more resistant to the frequent whims of the people and thus are less likely to convict office holders and remove them from office based on fickle passions and witch-hunts. The thought is that Senators are more reasoned. An indictment can be conducted by passionate congressmen because their decisions are checked by the cool deliberation of the Senate.
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LaoOne power that the framers of the US Constitution gave to the Senate is the ability to impeach a government official. They oversee the impeachment trial and can impeach with a two third majority.
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What did the framers give congress to protect liberty and specify its powers?
executive power
Why did the framers give the House power?
Wat farmers & wat house? im randomly guessing the answer is because the farmers lived there so they wanted their house 2 hav power. thanx 4 asking, not that i know the answer.
For what purpose did the framers give the power to impeach to the House of Representatives?
orginially the house was the only national legislative body directly representative of the people. The idea of this power to the house was to reflect the power of the people. The senate was to act in the interest of the states. The politics behind their findings from the impeachment trial would also be less likely to be influenced by politics since they are elected for a six year term. The overreaching idea is that Madison drafted a plan to ensure checks and balances in various powers of government
What does the senate have sole power of?
According to Aricle 1, Section 3.6 of the U.S. Constitution "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments." All impeachment trials are held in the Senate, where the President can be found guilty with an a 2/3 vote majority.
Why was congress unwilling to give the president the power to veto bills?
Congress was not unwilling to give the President the veto power. Certain members of the Constitutional Convention were. Congress, as we know it today, did not write the Constitution. Some Framers of the Constitution did not favor the veto power, fearing it gave the President too much power of the legislative branch. In fact, many Framers felt the President should simply be an agent of the Congress subject to its direction and control.
