What is the significance of standing committees in Congress?
Legislative Branch Review

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Standing committees help to divide the workload and create specialization in Congress
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Why are rules and guidelines for debate different in both legislative houses?
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The House of Representatives has more members so more rules are needed to control debate.
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· Most colonial legislatures were set up using this structure · It settled conflict between the Virginia and New Jersey plans · Provided an internal checks and balance system
The ideas listed above were underlying reasons for Options: establishing a bicameral legislature in the Constitution, providing the executive with a presidential veto, revisiting the Articles of Confederation to add an executive branch, creating a national court system in America, necessary for a legislative veto
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establishing a bicameral legislature in the Constitution
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Which legislative ideology was influenced by this provision in the Constitution? To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Office thereof. —Article I, Section 8 Options: Implied powers, Expressed powers, Patent powers, Concurrent powers
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Implied powers
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. —17th Amendment of U.S. Constitution
The excerpt contributed most directly to the — expansion of suffrage to all people, weakening of national political parties, reduction of the number of U.S. Senators elected, extension of democracy in America
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extension of democracy in America
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Impact of the 17th Amendment ratification reported on April 8, 1913, in *Daily News* headline?
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The power of the states diminished
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Why did the Framers of the Constitution favor bicameralism?
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The houses might act as a check and balance on each other.
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