On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 susan wrote: >we have a local area represresentative called a senator, and in each part of >tennessee we have several different ones . they are given jurisdictions by >population, and i think tennessee has 2 or 3 per jurisdiction. the there >are many jurisdictions accross the state of tennessee, so there are quite a >few senators. then they have a congressman who represents them in the white >house, and from there we are represented by the president.
Susan, I think you are confusing the state legislature with the federal. All but one of our states have a Senate and a House and the state is divided into districts for each, according to population, (as you said). I'm not sure how many there are in Tenn. Each state decides for itself. The executive of a state is called the Governor. These are not the same districts as the Federal Congressional districts, which are also based on population. The Constitution of the USA provides for 2 houses in the legislative branch. There are 2 Senators from each state (Total of 100) in the upper house,(the Senate), and 365 congressmen in the House of Representatives. It is in the Constitution that a census be taken every 10 years, and from those figures each state is assigned a proportional number of congressmen (of the 365) for the next 10 years. The states must then draw the district lines so that the number of population will be more or less equal in each district. There are three branches of government - the legislative make the laws; the executive (President, who lives in the White House, his Cabinet, etc.) carries out the laws; and the judiciary (the Supreme Court) interprets the law. The 1st 2 are elected by all the people (at least those who take the trouble to vote) and the Supreme court is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. Senators serve for 6 year terms, and 1/3 of them are elected every 2 years; congressmen in House of Representatives serve for 2 year terms, and the President serves for 4 year terms. So the USA does not have a pure democracy, but a representative republic. I'll now take off my teacher of Government hat, and put my lace designing one back on. I am trying to redraw an old Bucks pattern to true it up. The Bucks ground is of 1 size and angle and the honeycomb ground is of another size and angle. Grrrrr. :) Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
