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Does Congress represent everyone ?
Representation means each and every person represented by their nominated representative from men to women, from white to black, from Christian to Jews and Muslims etc. According to Dovi, “Political representation occurs when political actors speak, advocate, symbolize, and act on the behalf of others in the political arena”( Dovi1). The president of the United States may be commonly referred to as "the most powerful man on the planet", his power inevitably meets inevitable and very serious limits: those that trace daily the US Congress, this obligatory partner of the chief of the state, which can be a formidable opponent. Because they did not want an invading "monarch" that would have reproduced the failings of the British Crown and threatened their liberties, the founding fathers had carefully weighed the institutional balance between the legislative and the executive, condemning them permanently. to compose with each other. We cannot understand democracy in America if we underestimate the central role Parliament plays in politics (Aleksandra1). That's what Barack Obama does has been constantly reminding his electorate, while he begged him to vote in recent weeks. He knew that without a majority in the House, the chair becomes a truncated power.
The congress represent states not communities or individuals. There is no representation on the bases of gender, ethnicity, race, color ,religion , disability etc. According to “Congress is unrepresentative because its demographic features do not mirror those of the general population”( William , Connelly and John1).The criteria to become the member of Congress are including; member of the House of Representatives must be 25 years old, be a U.S. citizen for at least seven years and be a resident of the state from which he is elected. Congress follow delegate model of representation. Congress need to be a representative of every citizen in USA. After every 10 years, USA goes to census, but congress never chooses representative according to census results. “LGB representation in the Congress, while refining with each election, is still under-half a true image of the US. This only contains congressmembers who have definite openly whether they are gay, lesbian or bisexual”( Morris, Sam, and Juweek1).
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