Topic 2.1 Congress: The Senate and the House of Representatives AP Government

Enumerated and implied powers of Congress
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Congress’ main job is to make collective decisions, on all manner of topics and questions, because congress is a meeting of the States to discuss matters of common interest, and it’s a legislative assembly governed by legislative processes to reach a majority consensus of all the States as the Union. Only the States are members of the Union, only the States are members of Congress, only the States are apportioned representation and suffrage to participate in the legislative process of congress, only the presence of the States forms the quorum to operate and deliberate, and finally only the States can vote, 1 vote per State and a majority of all the States is necessary to any choice or decision.

Now that you have that definition of congress which constitutes and assembles a discrete democracy of the States, are you ready to change your BS presentation to actually coincide with the democratic and republican principles established in the Constitution of the United States?

By the way, the composition, assembly, distribution of power through rights of suffrage, function of congress as a legislative assembly are specified unalterably by the Constitution of the United States, Article 1 constitutes the Confederated Republican assembly of the States in a bicameral legislature where the Senate is the dominant branch with the power of concurrence over all laws, which means no law can be passed without the consent of a majority of all the States as equals with equal suffrage, but they cannot pass a law without it being determined by a majority consensus of all the States assembled proportionally by their population as a percentage of the aggregate population of the country. Articles 2 & 3 reconstitutes the Original Confederate assembly of Article 5 and 9 of the Articles of Confederation forming the “Committee of the States” in a unicameral assembly to make the decisions of a free and independent state; levying war, concluding peace, contracting alliances, establishing commerce, and any other Acts or Things an independent State may by right do, through treaties, and to establish any other executive and judicial departments to manage the general affairs of the Union under their direction.

This is why in order to understand the Constitution of the United States you must first understand the Articles of Confederation, and to understand the Articles of Confederation you must first understand the last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

I know you are confused, but you should read the whole of Federalist #51 where Madison tells us that it is not possible to empower the different departments of government to protect themselves from usurpation from the other departments, and that in a Republican Form of Government, like the United States, the legislative authority necessarily predominates, which led them to decide the legislative authority into two branches which differed in assembly and action, and later in his discussion he further explained that it resulted in two federal government assemblies operating independently and simultaneously, with only as much interaction as necessary to perform the purpose of each branch.

What does that mean, well when the confederate assembly negotiates a treaty, that treaty may have expenditures attached to it, and all expenditures must be legislature by the republican assembly of Article 1, the States are still setting the parameters of the treaty and what constitutes an agreement, but the cost must be agreed to, and the cost are determined by the republican principle.

You should be now understand that congress cannot operate properly when the assembly and distribution of suffrage are consolidated and usurped by political parties to determine the composition and control of the legislative process. Parries are not members of the Union, parties are not members of congress, parties are not apportioned representation and suffrage to participate in the legislative processes of Congress, therefore parties cannot participate or influence any collective decisions determined in congress as a majority of all the States as the Union.

Again I ask, do you wish to change your BS presentation!