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"US Congress"
The United States of America is a federal republic
consisting of
50 states. Each of
which has its
own goverment ("state
goverment"). In some ways the United States
is like 50
small
countries. Each state has its own governor, its own
police and
its own laws. The present constitution was proclaimed in
1787 in
Philadelphia, the President is the head of the whole
country and
the goverment and "commandering chief" of the armed
forces. He
makes the most important decisions and chooses the
ministers, the
members of his cabinet. But the President cannot do just
what he
wants. The Congress must agree first.
Americans choose a new
president every four years. The residence of the President
is the
White House in Washington, the Capital city. The goverment
of the
whole country (the Federal goverment) works from Washington,
this
is where the Congress is based. The Capitol is the seat of
the US
Congress. Congress is the American parliament which consists
of 2
chambers. The Senate and the House of Representatives.
The first
Congress met in 1789
in New York
city. The membership
then
consisted of 22 senators and 59 representatives. Today
the House
of Representatives has 435 members. Elections to the house
take
place every 2 years. There are 100 senators (2 from
each state),
they are elected to serve for a period of six years,
but every
two years elections to the senate took place when
one/third of
its members must be changed or re-elected. Election day is
always
in the month of November, on the first Tuesday, after the
first
Monday. Americans who aren't yet 25 years old have no right
to be
elected to the House of Representatives. Whose, who are
under 30
can't be elected in the Senate. The main political parties
in the
United States of America
are the Democratic
Party and the
Republlican Party.