The Legislature: Constitutional Design

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Article One is by far the longest part of the Constitution. It contains ten sections which provide some design elements for the two chambers among many other things. While walking through it we will get a general sense - hopefully - about the institutions were intended to work, with the understanding that quite a bit of what exists in the current Congress was not stipulated in the document. Each chamber has been allowed to design its own institutions and outline its own procedures, which means that power in Congress tends to be in flux. Which set us up for a look at the extra-constitutional institutions it contains.

- Bicameralism.
- House Elections.
- House of Representatives.
- Oversight.
- Power of the Purse.
- The Speaker.