FrontPage: Take a copy of the capital/Capitol reading. What makes the US capital different from

most other world capitals?

Last Word: OL 5.1 due Friday

Winner of the Mt. Rushmore voting…

3rd place: James Madison – 10 votes

2nd place: JFK – 18 votes

1st place:Reagan – 22 votes

The Statue of Freedom

Pre-Test

FrontPage: OL on your desk.

Last Word: OL 5.2/5.3 due next Thursday

You can see right through the whitespotted conger larva. This flat-shaped fish found in the waters around Japan is about six inches long now. But when fully grown, it will lose its transparency and be up to three feet long.

Introduction to CongressChapter 5, Section 1

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

"If con is the opposite of pro, is

Congress the opposite of progress?"

From Charlie Wilson's WarJoanne Herring: "Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?"Charlie Wilson: "Well, tradition mostly."

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law

firm, and three or more is a congress.”

Creating the Legislative BranchOne of the central questions at the drafting of the

Constitution dealt with how representatives in the legislature would be given to each state…Some believed in an equal number for each state

What types of states liked this idea? Some felt that the more people a state had, the more

representatives it should receive. What types of states liked this idea?

And so the fate of the Constitution and the new nation hinged on this initial question…

The Great Compromise – Thinking Win-WinAnd so, in order to

compromise between both sides, it was decided that the legislative branch would have 2 separate housesOne house would have an

equal number per stateOne would have

representation based on population

This compromise became known as the “Great Compromise” because it solved one of the most important conflicts in the drafting of the Constitution…

Our 2-house Congress – A “Win-Win”…

And so, our legislative branch, responsible for making laws, was divided into 2 houses to give both large and small states a “win”…