U.S. Constitution
Legislative Branch By Dylan Arment
Qualifications of Jobs
Qualifications for the senate are more restrictive than those for the house. Senates must be at least 30 years old and they must have been citizens of the united states for at least 9 years, the framers of the constitution made the senate a more elite body in order to produce a further check on the powers of the House of Representative. Representative must be 25 years old, citizens of the United States for 7 years and resident of the state they represent.
Meeting Times of Congress
Rules of Congress
Powers Granted to Them.
2.borrowing
3.commerce
4.naturalization and bankruptcy
5.currency
6.counterfeiting
7.post office
8.copyrights and patents
9.courts
10.piracy
11.declar war
12.army
13.navy
14.rules for armed forces
15.militia
16.national guard
17.nationals capital
18.elastic clause
How A Bill Became a Law.
Committees come up with the bill If a bill has passed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been approved by the President, or if a presidential veto has been overridden, the bill becomes a law and is enforced by the government. Laws begin as ideas. Laws begin as ideas. These ideas may come from a Representative or from a citizen like you. Citizens who have ideas for laws can contact their Representatives to discuss their ideas. If the Representatives agree, they research the ideas and write them into bills.When a Representative has written a bill, the bill needs a sponsor. The Representative talks with other Representatives about the bill in hopes of getting their support for it. Once a bill has a sponsor and the support of some of the Representatives, it is ready to be introduced.