Congress I

Tonight: submit assignments via Canvas.  If you have trouble, just email them to me as attached Word files.  NO PDFS.

Tomorrow:  watch Trump address to Congress.

Wednesday:

• Hamilton, Federalist # 47, 48, 57, 63.
• Tocqueville, 196-230.
• Boehner and Franken readings on Canvas (email me if you have trouble opening them.)  Don't worry:  they are fun readings.

Research

What is representation?

Substantive:  delegate v. trustee (Lowi 139)

Demographics: race and ethnicity

Federalist 51

• Separation of Powers: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place."
• Bicameralism: "In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit."

Hill leadership

• House
• Senate

Leadership Activities

• Legislation
• Whips and for real (Scalise is now majority leader)
• Communication:  Johnson v. Thune
• Campaign Activity; Hill Committees 
• Literally "paying your dues"

Edmund Burke:

 In all bodies, those who will lead, must also, in a considerable degree, follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition, of those whom they wish to conduct: therefore, if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world, and for that reason cannot enter into calculation, will prevent the men of talent disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instruments of absurd projects!